Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [subord] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if a statue had started to weep . |
| 2 | It was as if a door had opened before him into a dim but positive light . |
| 3 | It was as if a fall lay within her that she was n't able to make . |
| 4 | It was as if a looking-glass had been diverted . |
| 5 | ‘ When I saw you at the side of the road , it was as if a nightmare had come true . |
| 6 | At nights , particularly , she had felt loneliness so great it was as if a hole had been torn in her soul , something irreplaceable had been ripped from her . |
| 7 | It was as if a fist had punched her very hard in the stomach . |
| 8 | Then it was as if a storm broke . |
| 9 | ‘ It was as if a key turned , ’ Margaret Drabble once remarked of her easy transition from student days at Cambridge to the life of an instant bestseller in realistic fiction with her first novel , A Summer Birdcage ( 1962 ) . |
| 10 | There was nothing obviously wrong — Albert sitting at one end of the table in front of his books and Hepzibah making an apple pie at the other , pressing the pastry top with a fork to make a frill round the edge — but it was as if a light had gone out . |
| 11 | It was as if a light had been extinguished ; the colours which were once so bright and clear had grown blurred and faded . |
| 12 | It was as if a cloud had lifted . |
| 13 | Miss Abbott , when you came to my house the other day and wandered round my studio and let me see something of your thoughts , it was as if a gale had blown through all the dust and cobwebs , all the mouldering old habits that were growing up round me like ivy , and when you had gone , I tore that canvas off the easel and smashed it — ’ |