Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] it as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only use it as a last resort , when the dog is impeding my progress . |
| 2 | ‘ But now I only use it as a last resort . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I only offer it as an example of the Catholic guilt complex , ’ said William , looking hurt . |
| 4 | ‘ I also saw it as an excuse to eat . ’ |
| 5 | A friend gave me a mini for scrap , but I immediately saw it as a hippo , so that 's what it became . |
| 6 | What you witnessed that night was Melanie trying to persuade me to perform the operation for her — or , failing that , to get someone else to do it as a favour . ’ |
| 7 | Foley does not want the permanent job , saying : ‘ I again regard it as a short-term business . ’ |
| 8 | " I definitely see it as an extension of the house . |
| 9 | I 'm not quite sure whether that was a pat on the back or what but anyway erm and when Martin offered you for a drink I actually took it as a cup of tea actually so |
| 10 | ‘ I actually saw it as a great challenge . |
| 11 | I therefore included it as a separate mode although my analysis remained highly tentative . |
| 12 | In fact , any other time it would probably have terrified her , now she rather welcomed it as a sign that life was normal after all . |
| 13 | And they 're giving quite a lot back , and I , I know you only give it as a , as a guide , Mr Chairman , but two hundred and fifty pound , I would think that would have to be doubled . |
| 14 | She only did it as a temporary measures just |
| 15 | Had n't she finally made it as an integrated human being without the help of her father ? |
| 16 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 17 | On the one hand , the force is immensely distrusted by large sections of the Catholic community who still see it as an ‘ armed wing of unionism ’ , propping up an illegitimate regime . |
| 18 | Queen 's Bay Lodge , once known as Easter Duddingston Lodge , was the home of the Jenner family , who later used it as a staff hostel . |
| 19 | The thing that made Aldus 's product take off was undoubtedly the special relationship between Apple ( who heavily promoted it as a way to sell their LaserWriter page printer ) , Adobe ( who wanted to make a market for PostScript ) and Aldus themselves — the so-called Triple-A Alliance . |
| 20 | estate , er the big , big compound they have stills and there 's a lady who actually does it as a living |
| 21 | And we only did it as a joke ! you ! |
| 22 | The intercept is the value of Y when X is zero , a pretty meaningless value when X is a mortality rate , as we noted above ; we just treat it as a scaling factor , needed to predict a given Y value from a given X value . |
| 23 | We always regarded it as a partnership , we just had n't made it official by telling the Institute or the Inland Revenue . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Ravenscraig has been described as one of the biggest environmental challenges in Europe but we also see it as an opportunity to establish Lanarkshire as a world leader in the field of environmental technology . |
| 25 | So we either , in terms of number of institutions I would think we probably count it as an F E institution , because this the A level is , is much smaller than the other F E. But in terms of F E students and sixth form students , what I would want to do is count the A level students as sixth form students . |
| 26 | Well we certainly saw it as a disadvantage , he thought we 'd be er very well off with it . |
| 27 | Presented with ( 32 ) , we therefore read it as a sequence of two events that occurred in that order : ( 32 ) Alfred went to the store and bought some whisky We now see how the semanticist armed with the notion of implicature can extricate himself from the dilemmas raised above in connection with examples ( 4 ) -(7) . |
| 28 | ‘ But they obviously see it as an important matter of principle , so I ought not to stand in their way . ’ |
| 29 | They just use it as a holiday home do n't they ? |
| 30 | They do , they think people did it to me so I 'm gon na do it to them they just do it as a way of getting back , it 's not is this what people do , they know it 's not right they just do it because they think well we had to sit there for hours on look out so they can too . |