Example sentences of "it [prep] [conj] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 When the train reached Puno we left it as if on a military exercise .
2 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 .
3 The street between them was empty , but the assassin spoke across it as if across a raging river .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer .
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