Example sentences of "it [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know , it looks as if it 's got some grit in it for when it gets icy I suppose you have to put he grit down there . |
| 2 | It says the company 's marketing of Cisco is dangerously deceptive ; it induces unsuspecting teenagers to guzzle it as if it were a standard spritzer . |
| 3 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 4 | He received it as if it were a precious relic a saint had just blessed , and folded it carefully . |
| 5 | Then , reverting to his chosen , statesmanlike stance , he added : ‘ Anyway , we should not be talking about it as if it 's just bread and circuses . |
| 6 | He let his left hand dangle , inspecting it as if it were an alien object . |
| 7 | Occasionally when she was wearing this she had a trick of lifting it like wings , or ruffling it as if it was her real plumage , and she 'd declare : ‘ My dears , I am preparing for The Flight — into Egypt , to the islands , to the New World — who knows ! ’ |
| 8 | As E. R. Curtius has pointed out , the pious attitude of the Romans to their past and their tendency to regard it as if it were a part of the present signified a kind of timelessness that excluded a genuinely historical view of the world and was very different from our sense of temporal perspective . |
| 9 | Although the limb is three-dimensional I will treat it as if it were two-dimensional and only consider position with respect to two axes , the antero-posterior axis which runs across the limb from digit 2 to digit 4 , and the long , or proximo-distal axis , which runs from the shoulder to the tip of the digits . |
| 10 | For that last half-hour of the day , the dunes became a deeper gold and were scored with the long shadows of palm trees , whose tops were so green that I fancied that if my arm had been long enough I could have plucked a leaf and eaten it as if it had been parsley . |
| 11 | Since this became a standard feature of trusts it is not helpful to treat it as if it were dependent solely on an especially close regard for the testator 's intention . |
| 12 | I started the Food Addict 's Diet and stuck to it as if it were my shadow . |
| 13 | I have a Goniopora coral and my Clownfish lives in it as if it were an anemone , which is not doing it a lot of good . |
| 14 | All over Europe they react to it as if it 's a massive hit ; as soon as we start this thing the applause is as if it 's one of your hit singles ! |
| 15 | She hated it as if it was a personal devil . |
| 16 | He loved the child , and was endlessly kind and thoughtful towards it , as fond of it as if it were his own . |
| 17 | Water is becoming an increasingly scarce and valuable resource , and to charge for it as if it were free is beginning to look absurd . |
| 18 | So do n't treat it as if it 's a harmless filler . |
| 19 | I can remember it as if it were yesterday . |
| 20 | Windows will then ignore the line , treating it as if it were a comment . |
| 21 | The operands may be of different lengths ; if the first operand is shorter , the computer processes it as if it was extended on the left with zeros ; if the second ( destination ) field is shorter , some of the more significant digits of the result are lost . |
| 22 | He held out his leather tobacco pouch : the young man looked at it as if it would bite him who touched . |
| 23 | Her facial skin had absorbed it as if it were the most expensive cosmetic cream . |
| 24 | The reporter picked up his empty lager can and contemplated it as if it were a work of art . |
| 25 | If the line is even , and your position is not critical , treat it as if it were starboard biased : that is , if you want to continue on starboard tack , join the bunch reaching down the line quite early . |
| 26 | The Leader , so he told his people , had lifted this distempered fog , this old corruption of Italy , and shone a bright blazing torch into the darkness of the bosses ' law , sweetening it as if it were a malarial swamp , squashing the mosquito lawyers and owners and priests breeding in it . |
| 27 | Lorre put his arm around the bush , soothing it as if it were a favourite niece in whose person he took an unhealthy interest . |
| 28 | He stroked her face , and then ran his fingers through her hair , looking at it as if it were made of some delicate , finely spun silk . |
| 29 | The phone went dead and she stared at it as if it had bitten her . |
| 30 | I ca n't shake a lingering vision of her straining eagerly against Casey , and I half blame her for it as if it were true . |