Example sentences of "[verb] it as a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 2 | ‘ I only use it as a last resort , when the dog is impeding my progress . |
| 3 | Certain spiders also use it as a last resort . |
| 4 | ‘ But now I only use it as a last resort . ’ |
| 5 | in the studies described earlier , those who were most proficient in BSL were those learning it as a first language ( albeit with English as another first language ) . |
| 6 | I take it as a last question , comment . |
| 7 | Boulestin 's idea was that while you were at it you made — as in a great many of his recipes — enough of this mixture ( he treats smoked cod 's roe and anchovy fillets in precisely the same manner ) for two meals : you serve it as a first course , with toast , for two very differently composed lunches . |
| 8 | We regard it as a first step , good though not big , towards equal treatment for all alcoholic products . |
| 9 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |