Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this happens work out the effect just as if it were an enemy unit . |
| 2 | Once the drip was up and the monitor was on I was much less mobile but as I gained confidence I learnt how to put the monitor back on if it stopped working when I moved . |
| 3 | The target may make the usual response just as if it had been charged in the normal manner . |
| 4 | Once you have the motherboard in place and wired it up then you have to commission the machine just as if it was new . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He swept her resistance aside as if it were a cobweb . |
| 7 | After the door closed , a pudgy hand picked up the videotape gingerly as if it were a dead bird and , pausing for a moment so that the viewer could read ‘ GOVERNMENT DRUGS SCANDAL ’ , dropped it into a wastepaper bin . |
| 8 | An enemy unit may charge a Squig Hopper and fight it in hand-to-hand combat exactly as if it were a normal cavalry model . |
| 9 | What people have to keep in mind , and what people really should be very concerned about here in Great Britain is the fact that this is a very contentious industry , that there are a number of competitors out there who have taken to slinging innuendo around as if it were mud . |
| 10 | The punch I place on his chin arrives with the full weight of my body and jolts his head back as if it was on elastic . |
| 11 | Teddy slams his glass down on the table and waves his wooden spoon around as if it was a sabre . |
| 12 | Except in his early letters to Helen , his reticence about his passionate courtship is almost complete — a fact that may explain , if not excuse , the coldness with which many of his friends and family received Helen 's slightly idealized accounts of their life together in As It Was and World Without End . |
| 13 | The hard copy volume is deleted from the hard copy directory regardless of whether it has been accepted or rejected . |
| 14 | The second method tries to analyse the structure of the fossil almost as if it were a piece of engineering . |
| 15 | After dinner , back on the boat , he sat and talked about the soil as the common link between people of all nations , and spoke almost lovingly of husbandry and caring for the soil almost as if it were a human being . |
| 16 | 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 ) ) . |
| 17 | Pascoe took his hand away as if it had been stung . |
| 18 | All shareware disks contain a manual that can be printed , which means you are using the program just as if it were the full priced product . |
| 19 | He jerked his hand back as if it had received an electric shock : a cheek nerve had quivered . |
| 20 | A goose which follows a human being round as if it were its parent does not have its sexual behaviour anything like so disturbed ; when it grows up it will court other geese . |
| 21 | Now at about the time that that letter was written on the twenty second of October er Mr had the meeting at the National Westminster Bank that had been arranged between himself and a Mrs and it is clear from er this meeting that the bank would no longer er , given that the Frinton property was not to be offered as security , prepared to offer the sum , the substantial sums that they had originally agreed to do and they were now only prepared to offer very much smaller sums and the plaintiff 's case is that the only way that they were going to be able to proceed to complete on this matter was er by selling their homes , their family home at and it is the plaintiff 's case , certainly in relation to er the losses that they have sustained as a result of the breach of contract , alleged in this case , that er if they had not been forced to go ahead to complete on this deal they would not have been required to sell their family home . |
| 22 | But identifying the principal active ingredient of alcoholic drinks was a vital step forward in that it allowed the quantity of intoxicant to be measured accurately , always the first step in any proper study of drugs and their actions . |