Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 If you want a new car , then cherish your beaten-up old Ford as if it were a gleaming red convertible .
2 Some energy from point Q is also detected by the sensor as if it had originated at P , due to scattering at S1 .
3 ‘ The reader interprets the text as if it had been written in his own language , culture and time … .
4 So , you can rotate , stretch and generally fiddle with text as if it was a square or what have you .
5 The park lay in sodden neglect , sprawling over its rank acreage as if it had passed out .
6 I swilled down the half-pint of champagne as if it was bitter lemon .
7 ‘ I think it would be a good idea if we all had a swim before breakfast , do n't you ? ’ he said , the announcement seized upon with alacrity by the two little girls who , once again , began jumping up and down on the mattress as if it were a trampoline .
8 Esther says of Mrs Jellyby : her voice impressed my fancy as if it had a sort of spectacles on too Ch 8 and of Mr Turveydrop :
9 Culley pulled on the man 's hair as if it were a bell rope , backhanded him across the throat again , then clamped his hand over Schmidt 's mouth .
10 They will also dance to an electric light bulb as if it were the sun .
11 The decision should be made in the first instance as if it were easy to be made .
12 The thought that Doreen might be pregnant , that the processes of gestation might be irretrievably in motion at that very moment , returned at regular intervals with more and more force , pumping worry into his heart as if it were a balloon .
13 ‘ Well , Ian , ’ he said , stroking the beard as if it were a favourite pet that had curled up on his chin , ‘ I think we have established incontrovertibly that you are an eidetiker of sorts .
14 We 've got to realise that there 's going to families out and about , and what we 'll do is the aircraft er I have n't seen the scenario on paper , but just off the top of my head , I can tell you that the aircraft will make their approaches to the base as if it were a real target .
15 The small khat traders from Djibouti , who travel the route as if it were the local bus , shrieked and angrily rearranged their shawls and robes .
16 Clutching her stick as if it were an offensive weapon , she made for the door .
17 When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment .
18 Around his waist he wore a broad leather belt with a bone-handled knife clasped in a sheath and as usual in the presence of the coolies his right hand rested on its hilt as if it were a ceremonial sword .
19 Therefore it appears that a photon of energy E = hv behaves in a gravitational field as if it possessed an inertial mass E/c 2 !
20 The maid took the plate from her mistress as if it were hot .
21 Write down this experience as if it were a dream .
22 Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street .
23 Oscars , by contrast , are handed out to an industry that thrives on glittering events and spends money as if it were being withdrawn from circulation tomorrow .
24 They had stopped to get some fruit for her , and the stall-holder had insisted that it was a gift , refusing Michael 's money as if it was the norm to give his produce away for free .
25 There is a particular kind of French personality who always pronounce the word francais as if it were a football he is heading towards less privileged mortals .
26 If market interaction takes place repeatedly , however , why is it that firms are assumed to ignore this and treat each decision as if it were a move in a ‘ one-shot ’ game ?
27 This highly characteristic Fifties attitude makes Souza 's work look as if it belongs to a time rather than a place .
28 To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised .
29 If you do not have the luxury of a dining room used just for dining — and most of us do not , the trick is to make your dining table look as if it is not a dining table most of the time .
30 You make the pillowcase look as if it 's been washed with Brand X …
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