Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All her attention was on her first bite of bread which tasted as if it had come straight from Paradise . |
| 2 | It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else . |
| 3 | And Caroline , who had never developed the art of flirting , behaved as if it came as naturally to her as breathing . |
| 4 | At first it seemed as if it had happened to someone else , and entertaining on that merit alone . |
| 5 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 6 | Another view of some civil law courts is that neither set of conditions can apply to the contract ( since the parties manifestly wanted the contract to exist , acted as if it did , but could not agree as to which of their sets of standard conditions should apply to it ) . |
| 7 | The prison did little to lighten their mood : grey frowning walls with a few sombre buildings peeping above them , and a black gateway with an arch which yawned as if it wished to devour any unfortunate who approached it . |
| 8 | His self-conscious gaucheness vanished as if it had evaporated in the thin cold air of the mountains and he found friends . |
| 9 | His smile vanished as if it had been peeled of . |
| 10 | She swallowed as if it caused her pain , her face screwed up . |
| 11 | His crushed throat felt as if it had a lump of stone lodged inside it . |
| 12 | He tried to scream the name but his throat felt as if it had been cauterized with a hot iron . |
| 13 | Her head felt as if it had been hit with a bag of cement , or replaced with one . |
| 14 | Magic had descended from somewhere and made her invisible ; and in the process it had … well , it felt as if it had killed her . |
| 15 | Even her heart : she felt as if it had barely room to beat . |
| 16 | It felt as if it had been split in two by a cold chisel and someone was grinding the two halves together . |
| 17 | The interior was still waiting for its first clean and the upholstery felt as if it had been textured in buff nicotine . |
| 18 | So that it looked as if it belonged to the house . |
| 19 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 20 | Delaney stood with one foot on the hull of the craft that looked as if it owed more to space technology than to marine engineering . |
| 21 | I had a chillingly clear picture of its abominable face : it had so many wrinkles and boils it looked as if it had lived for centuries . |
| 22 | It looked as if it had just been brought home by Susan from Blackpool . |
| 23 | Ray Shepherd was a tall man with a craggy , lined face that looked as if it had once been weathered but was now the colour of chalk . |
| 24 | It looked as if it had landed there by chance , like a piece of paper or a leaf . |
| 25 | Her hair , which looked as if it had been inexpertly permed , was pulled back at the sides but frizzed over the high forehead in the poodle-like fashion of an Edwardian . |
| 26 | It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof . |
| 27 | The other day I came to work wearing a rather sharp tie and somebody said it looked as if it had been designed by somebody with ‘ special needs ’ . |
| 28 | He was a stocky fifty-eight-year-old with grey hair and a small goatee beard which looked as if it had been stuck on to his chin with glue . |
| 29 | A flower-print dress was draped across the back of the chair , and there was a brown battered suitcase on the floor at her feet , which looked as if it had been pulled out from beneath the bed . |
| 30 | The most striking feature of his appearance was a sheepskin jacket which looked as if it had seen better days , sometime in the late nineteen seventies . |