Example sentences of "it as [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the first appearance of the dog , a delicate insertion ; afterwards , Emma holds its head and kisses it ( as Gustave had done to Nero/Thabor ) : the dog has a melancholy expression , and she talks to it as if to someone in need of consolation . |
| 2 | He entered into it as if for sanctuary . |
| 3 | They wore their Sunday black and were climbing along the path over the hill , girding it as if with an emblematic mourning ribbon . |
| 4 | When the train reached Puno we left it as if on a military exercise . |
| 5 | As soon as I see that a patient 's breathing pattern is changing dramatically or that the eye movement behind the closed lids is altering , I instruct him to be aware of and to understand all that is happening but to see it as if on a film or television screen , so that he is completely detached and feels no physical or mental distress whatsoever . |
| 6 | The street between them was empty , but the assassin spoke across it as if across a raging river . |
| 7 | The child stared towards it as if in recognition of something held in memory ; then she turned and looked at the old woman , who was sitting on the couch unlacing her boots , and she said , ‘ You have a garden . ’ |
| 8 | No longer would he pound around the obstacle course set out by Newton and himself : there was a life he could live which took its time , strolled through weeks as if they were single mornings , allowed the world to come to him instead of himself for ever launching himself on it as if in unarmed combat . |
| 9 | Everything that torments me , everything I do n't have and that I long for , that makes me indignant , or sick , or suffocates me , everything that gives me a feeling of light and warmth , and by which I live , and everything that destroys me — it 's all there in your film , I see it as if in a mirror . |
| 10 | The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude . |
| 11 | ‘ You say it as if in some way it excuses her , ’ she remarked . |
| 12 | And what happens is , they float around and when they come in contact with a bacterium , they stick into the wall and the D N A tube is inserted through the bacterial wall into the psychoplasm of the bacteria , and the D N A is just pumped into it as if from a hypodermic syringe . |