Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 As she said , ‘ The audience did n't know what the f — we were on about and it went on for simply ages , but Ken could be very indulgent with that sort of manic streak . ’
2 Do n't go on as if it had happened , ’ he said .
3 We shall carry on as if it has not happened .
4 When she tried again the door gave suddenly as if it had decided of itself to let her in .
5 His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press .
6 A hasty glance took in the gorgeous antique furniture crammed in as if it had been recently off-loaded by a dealer , the small , pristine cooker and the sink pushed against the soft ochre-washed wall as if it was an after-thought .
7 ‘ Damn fog ; it 's rolling in as if it means to isolate us beneath a blanket . ’
8 In other words , in those studies where children heard both more and less in the same trials or same sessions , and where there were more than two responses possible , they showed no evidence of treating less as if it meant more .
9 the idea that every form of avoidance of expenditure quite indifferently of whether it consists of really wasteful expenditure or of a capital investment in developing the nation 's productive resources , is alike ‘ economy ’ … .
10 In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not .
11 The hard copy volume is deleted from the hard copy directory regardless of whether it has been accepted or rejected .
12 But , unlike other Governments , we have not bound ourselves to join regardless of whether it makes economic or political sense .
13 From a strictly biological point of view , this work is notable enough in that it establishes a new category of bacterial metabolism .
14 The payment would appear in your 1988 accounts , and in the Government 's accounts for 1988/89 , just as if it had been made in August .
15 The target may make the usual response just as if it had been charged in the normal manner .
16 The unit must take a fear test immediately just as if it had been charged by an enemy that caused fear .
17 If engaged in hand-to-hand fighting the unit will break if it fails the test and may be pursued just as if it had been broken in hand-to-hand combat .
18 A vidicon TV camera can provide an input to such systems , and the image from the TV camera is stored in a memory bank just as if it had been read from a disc file ( as would be the case with a remotely-sensed image ( Chapter 5 ) ) .
19 Picking up a hefty cleaver he chopped the green skinned creature clean in half as easily as if it had been a stick of celery .
20 ‘ Did n't I ? ’ said Rose , not as if it had slipped her mind , but as if he had .
21 No it 's not as if it happened suddenly .
22 The whole Home Rule movement , with roots going far back into the past , melted quietly away as if it had never been .
23 Pascoe took his hand away as if it had been stung .
24 My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening .
25 Industry watchdog Lautro could have banned the company from selling investment products altogether , but decided not to because it had been co-operative and had acted promptly to beef up its sales methods .
26 If the representation has been made fraudulently or recklessly ( not caring whether or not it is true ) , then at common law the remedy of rescission is available ( setting the contract aside as if it had never been made at all ) , together with a right to recover any money laid out .
27 See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer .
28 He also keeps the following Presto agitato simmering for longer than usual ( track 4 ) , and his restraint pays off handsomely in that it throws the later climactic phases into relief .
29 Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided .
30 ‘ Oh , really ? ’ she uttered smugly as if it did n't matter at all .
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