Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He handed it to me as if it was no more than offering me an apple in a market-place . |
| 2 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 3 | And looking at the traffic on the railways , it looks to me as if it 's all absolutely wonderful , hunkydory and everything else , so er unless you 're er er bl s No no no no all the trains right up to the er nine minutes past one Harrogate train er , and the four minutes past one Plymouth train , all seem to be bang on train . |
| 4 | It looks to me as if it 's going to blooming rain again . |
| 5 | It sounds to me as if it could be a bit worrying to think that when you went to see your doctor you 'd be faced by a machine instead of a human being the other side of desk . |
| 6 | Grey-faced , he walked the heaving deck towards them as if it was a firm path , and the singing hushed at his coming . |
| 7 | Now you may as a manager think well you do n't have to do it all yourself , you can use senior people within your section who have the knowledge or you can use training officers or you can use people like ourselves at the training centre or the C B T or the I Vs or it could be that you bring the marketing department to help you out . |
| 8 | I only want you to cos it 'll make it up to three . |
| 9 | Erm now whether in by doing this virtually the safes spot but it 's the easiest spot to disperse them from and it 's the easiest spot to get them |
| 10 | As the diesel train came in and people were already picking up suitcases from the platform Moran turned and kissed her as if it were a last good night to all the nights she had come to him . |
| 11 | On her way out she paused , reaching up to slot the dā telo branch between the stones above the lintel , and the bull lowered its head threateningly and took a few steps towards her as if it was going to lunge . |
| 12 | How dared he treat her as if it was his right to inspect her with that insolent expression on his face ? |
| 13 | He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors . |
| 14 | But Nick said , ‘ Hallo , Mister Johnny , ’ and went up to him as if it were the easiest and most natural thing in the world . |
| 15 | And er I b I remember him as if it were yesterday . |
| 16 | This marriage was advantageous to him in that it introduced him into the local society but it was to last only three years , for in 1573 Jane died of smallpox at the age of 20 . |
| 17 | I do n't know , it looks as if it 's got some grit in it for when it gets icy I suppose you have to put he grit down there . |
| 18 | It says the company 's marketing of Cisco is dangerously deceptive ; it induces unsuspecting teenagers to guzzle it as if it were a standard spritzer . |
| 19 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 20 | He received it as if it were a precious relic a saint had just blessed , and folded it carefully . |
| 21 | Then , reverting to his chosen , statesmanlike stance , he added : ‘ Anyway , we should not be talking about it as if it 's just bread and circuses . |
| 22 | He let his left hand dangle , inspecting it as if it were an alien object . |
| 23 | Occasionally when she was wearing this she had a trick of lifting it like wings , or ruffling it as if it was her real plumage , and she 'd declare : ‘ My dears , I am preparing for The Flight — into Egypt , to the islands , to the New World — who knows ! ’ |
| 24 | As E. R. Curtius has pointed out , the pious attitude of the Romans to their past and their tendency to regard it as if it were a part of the present signified a kind of timelessness that excluded a genuinely historical view of the world and was very different from our sense of temporal perspective . |
| 25 | Although the limb is three-dimensional I will treat it as if it were two-dimensional and only consider position with respect to two axes , the antero-posterior axis which runs across the limb from digit 2 to digit 4 , and the long , or proximo-distal axis , which runs from the shoulder to the tip of the digits . |
| 26 | For that last half-hour of the day , the dunes became a deeper gold and were scored with the long shadows of palm trees , whose tops were so green that I fancied that if my arm had been long enough I could have plucked a leaf and eaten it as if it had been parsley . |
| 27 | Since this became a standard feature of trusts it is not helpful to treat it as if it were dependent solely on an especially close regard for the testator 's intention . |
| 28 | I started the Food Addict 's Diet and stuck to it as if it were my shadow . |
| 29 | I have a Goniopora coral and my Clownfish lives in it as if it were an anemone , which is not doing it a lot of good . |
| 30 | All over Europe they react to it as if it 's a massive hit ; as soon as we start this thing the applause is as if it 's one of your hit singles ! |