Example sentences of "as [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you actually write down questions so much going on you ca n't be expected to remember everything and if you 've got just you know sort of questions written down the page like what is your name , it 's simple as that it gets you to do , what ? |
| 2 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 3 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
| 4 | It was necessary in 1859 to write about the process of evolution as if it produced the best of all possible worlds , a substitute for the finger of the Almighty at work . |
| 5 | as if it reflected something in herself . |
| 6 | She said her name timidly , as if it felt strange to address her so . |
| 7 | This highly characteristic Fifties attitude makes Souza 's work look as if it belongs to a time rather than a place . |
| 8 | ‘ Otherwise it looks as if it belongs to me . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Such luxurious hair , a face that looks as if it belongs to an angel … but of course , ’ he murmured , ‘ you kiss like an expert . ’ |
| 10 | It looks as if it belongs in some fairy-tale . ’ |
| 11 | She swallowed as if it caused her pain , her face screwed up . |
| 12 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It was as if it knew exactly where to go . ’ |
| 15 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 16 | But the voice that had spoken waited , as if it knew that eventually Creggan would speak the truth . |
| 17 | It had been saddled up ready for him and as Li Yuan stood there , it turned its head curiously , its large dark eyes meeting the prince 's as if it knew its new owner . |
| 18 | In the far corner , the cat cowered as if it knew it was in the presence of death . |
| 19 | ‘ What brings you here ? ’ said Aurora again , breathily , as if it mattered , flicking out the light and sitting again with practised gaucherie . |
| 20 | ‘ He got it wrong Wigs by Clarkson as if it mattered . |
| 21 | The person to whom it is retailed says , ‘ as if it mattered which platform ! ’ ) |
| 22 | ‘ as if it mattered . |
| 23 | She screwed up her face at the name as if it left a nasty taste in her mouth , adding : ‘ Ca n't abide that man . |
| 24 | Since we had been back in Reine , Jean-Claude had stopped speaking of Montaine 's death as if it haunted him unduly . |
| 25 | ‘ shall have effect as if it granted or provided for the grant of a tenancy for a term of 10 years , subject to a right exercisable either by the landlord or the tenant to determine the tenancy , if the war ends before the expiration of that term , by at least one month 's notice in writing given after the end of the war ; … |
| 26 | The Viennese piano is often discussed as if it developed along one path , as if each improvement followed the previous one in an orderly fashion . |
| 27 | He pronounced this last word as if it denoted something unpleasant . |
| 28 | " You speak of the OTC market as if it does n't exist . |
| 29 | Where the statute looks as if it does not cover certain forms of conduct the courts have sometimes read the statute widely to convict the " manifestly guilty " . |
| 30 | I shrug and look away , as if it does n't matter . |