Example sentences of "it [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled a small tape-recorder out of his pocket and put it on his lap , switching it on as he did so . |
| 2 | His horse , like Sharpe 's , had been slowed by the plough furrows in the rye field , but the Frenchman rowelled it on as he got close to Sharpe . |
| 3 | Cardiff took another torch from the wooden plinth as they descended the stairs into the basement , shoving it into his jacket pocket ; taking another and switching it on as they descended . |
| 4 | So I 'll have to get it set up ready for when I meet you from school and then we can switch it on as soon as we get home . |
| 5 | Erm if you 're buying an endowment policy is it possible to put er put it in as it were paid up , or do you have to find the premiums out of your income ? |
| 6 | Really I just did n't feel strong enough to take it in as well and do it properly you know . |
| 7 | The way to tighten it is when you 're on a beat , just pull it in as the tension is taken by the mainsheet . |
| 8 | to I mean ideally , ideally it 'll be better to fill it in as you go along |
| 9 | they 'll probably charge you for putting it in as well . |
| 10 | But upstairs he presses it in as well , and I , I 'm not hearing |
| 11 | The camera followed it down as it walked across her breast ( thirty foot wide ) and past her nipple ( five foot high ) . |
| 12 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 13 | Beatty turned it down as not being a big enough role , and so Polanski went for Robert Redford . |
| 14 | I threw myself on top of the wheelbarrow to hold it down as he passed . |
| 15 | Basically , you step up feeding when the number of bites increases , and slow it down as bites slow down . |
| 16 | Salvation Army territorial commander Peter Chang added later : ‘ I 've got to say she did n't put it down as being in love . ’ |
| 17 | Unless you want to just discuss it and mark it down as we 're going through . |
| 18 | And the thing that sounded like a telephone number — I wrote it down as soon as we got out of the attic — " One-x-nine-two-four " … |
| 19 | Fold in the overlapping corners at the top tightly , to secure the cone — you could staple it down as well if you like . |
| 20 | I seem to have it down as being on the 30th March . |
| 21 | Which is n't actually hard but I have to write it down as well . |
| 22 | It seemed almost too heavy for him to lift but he managed it , resting it against his leg and swinging it along as she held the door open for him . |
| 23 | Besides , I looked all of it over as soon as I saw it , persuaded the caretaker there to show us around . ’ |
| 24 | Mulling it over as she strolled along in the morning sunshine , passed occasionally by a battered Renault or a woman on a pushbike with a basket of baguettes swinging from the handlebars , Melissa felt more and more uneasy at her friend 's obvious emotional commitment to Bonard . |
| 25 | Thinking it over as she drove back , Sophie was conscious of mixed feelings . |
| 26 | Referee Rudy Battle had seen enough soon after and called it off as Dixon took a pounding . |
| 27 | and spend an afternoon cutting it off as it were |
| 28 | They present a general argument which sees violence as resulting from a widespread reluctance by the legal authorities to invoke potentially effective legislation , and tacitly to endorse such misbehaviour by passing it off as ‘ picket-line horseplay ’ or exuberance . |
| 29 | Its length is approximately 100 metres and whilst if the axis had run through any part of its length I would have shrugged it off as coincidence again , the fact that it intersects the relatively tiny west end of the barrow suggests a high degree of precision alignment . |
| 30 | I knocked it off as I ran past . |