Example sentences of "was [prep] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if feminism had never happened . |
| 2 | It was as if sea and wind together were singing a lament , mourning with a not quite human voice , the voice of water echoing in a sea-cave , weird , unearthly . |
| 3 | And it was as if Boy was now suddenly the drowning one , and O was the lifeguard ; O slapped him twice around the face , pulled his head back by a handful of hair and placed his mouth over Boy 's before he had time to speak , and kissed him right there in the doorway of The Bar . |
| 4 | It was as if Madame had deliberately placed this story underneath the story of the authoress 's life . |
| 5 | How her whole body had seemed to become part of the bow , and how , when the arrow had been released , it was as if part of her had flown through the air towards the distant target . |
| 6 | In Prevert 's words : ‘ It was as if life , in a snapshot , had made a portrait of Doisneau . ’ |
| 7 | It was as if game birds had been flushed by beaters and driven towards a central point , forced to attack the heart of power and authority in a desperate bid to secure this for themselves and seal the planet . |
| 8 | It was as if reason had finally dominated a lifetime of emotion . |
| 9 | It was as if autumn could not wait to get rid of summer . |
| 10 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |
| 11 | But in her small corner it was as if time had decided to take an extended coffee-break . |
| 12 | It was as if neatness and cleanliness were linked in his mind with the hypocritical . |