Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made a gesture with a graceful hand that shut me up as if it had turned a tap . |
| 2 | Er I 've talked them back in but it 's a house account so obviously there 's no money in for me you see ? |
| 3 | Preston stumbled out of bed and tried to give her a hug , but she fought him off as if it was an attack . |
| 4 | For the present , in the daytime , he was abruptly fed up with the lot : himself , his insufficiency , the toll that his financial state seemed to be taking of his wife , and the colossally polite head of his stepson , hanging over him now as if it had a miniature keg of brandy around its neck . |
| 5 | It comes in from the number nine , gets the goal but it was brilliantly created for him there by and it 's a quick response by right on the fifty minute mark , we 've had an hour of the match and it 's now three one . |
| 6 | More and more she was acting like a bitch ; more than once she had to restrain the urge to hit out at him , punch him in his good-looking , smarmy face , especially when she would come upon him in the drawing-room sitting holding her great-gran 's hand , stroking it gently as if it were a cat , and that old woman sitting there and , like a cat , lapping it up . |
| 7 | If a piece of dark paper about l/z inch in length is moved where a toad can see it , it will snap at it just as if it were an insect ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 8 | And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He tossed it aside as if it were made of straw and she knew she would be lost if he touched her . |
| 11 | Clutching his sleeve , she said : ‘ Nahum , we could adopt a child and bring it up as if it were our own . ’ |
| 12 | If 2-DG is injected into the bloodstream , it fools neurons ( along with all other body cells ) into taking it up as if it were glucose . |