Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 2 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 3 | It dates to about 1780 and looks as if it has landed by magic carpet . |
| 4 | It winds up the hillside , and looks as if it could become a raging torrent in wet weather . |
| 5 | It is a double row of fine , tall and expansive Victorian terraced villas and looks as if it is straight out of London . |
| 6 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 7 | At the cadenza , she stumbled down the keyboard with something that had elements of a flourish but ended up sounding more like a digital coronary , an awful , shaming collapse of the fingers that , at the last minute , recovered itself and looked as if it might turn into something like the chord of A minor . |
| 8 | It was brownish-yellow and very tattered and looked as if it might be the real thing . |
| 9 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 10 | When gardening he often wore very baggy trousers with braces , gum boots and a waist-length black donkey jacket which hung loose and looked as if it was too short . |
| 11 | His small suitcase had been packed , and looked as if it was ready to go . |
| 12 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 13 | Why not just ignore the decision and act as if it was never made ? |
| 14 | She put her bag with the story on the passenger seat and drove as if it were a newborn baby . |
| 15 | Near the Clonmacnoise entrance , the river had overflowed into the fields , beside a misshapen castle tower that perched on a hummock , balanced at an angle and looking as if it were about to fall over . |
| 16 | We have wronged her , and ourselves , by constructing the pretence of a political entity , the Commonwealth , and acting as if it really existed . |
| 17 | In other words , it had to be accurate in every tiny detail and to look as if it was at first glance . |
| 18 | Please could you take a look at the enclosed details of the PC Insurance policy and advise on whether it is O.K. |
| 19 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 20 | She saw its mouth open and close as if it was attempting to address her . |
| 21 | As the orchestra took up the refrain once more , she came to take her mother 's hand at centre stage , and sang as if it was the most natural thing in the world . |
| 22 | Doctor Hensman was still in charge , making solemn authoritative pronouncements and predictions , and behaving as if it were he who had cured the patient . |
| 23 | Out of bed , in a companionship reliant upon my entering his fantasy world and behaving as if it were real , we did less well , eventually . |
| 24 | But Alice 's mood : little better than a sulk , and behaving as if it were everyone 's fault but her own … |
| 25 | Hilary , coming out of his reverie , noticed his discomfiture , and smiled as if it was something of not the slightest importance : ‘ The suggestion has been made , ’ he said . |
| 26 | He shifted his body towards her and spoke as if it were important that she , of all those present , should understand . |
| 27 | But where Paula 's hair had shone and bounced as if it had caught some of the morning 's sunlight her own was straight and mouse coloured , where Paula 's eyes were the clearest , sharpest green hers were muddied to a very ordinary shade of hazel . |
| 28 | The Bill thus becomes unopposed and proceeds as if it had been unopposed throughout . |