Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 2 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 3 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
| 4 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 5 | Its advantage was that it worked , in that it gave some hope of understanding why chemical compounds behave as they do ; and it did open the way to symbolizing chemical reactions . |