Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] it as [art] " 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 | Foley does not want the permanent job , saying : ‘ I again regard it as a short-term business . ’ |
| 7 | " I definitely see it as an extension of the house . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | ‘ I actually saw it as a great challenge . |
| 10 | I therefore included it as a separate mode although my analysis remained highly tentative . |
| 11 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 12 | In sum , in the contention which attended or , as some might prefer , the dialectical process which generated the structural change represented by the measures contained in the Reform Bill , the Whigs by proposing and the Tories by opposing them finally identified it as the exclusive issue on which people would stand up and be counted , for or against , yes or no . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She only did it as a temporary measures just |
| 16 | Had n't she finally made it as an integrated human being without the help of her father ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And we only did it as a joke ! you ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 21 | We always regarded it as a partnership , we just had n't made it official by telling the Institute or the Inland Revenue . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well we certainly saw it as a disadvantage , he thought we 'd be er very well off with it . |
| 25 | 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) . |
| 26 | ‘ But they obviously see it as an important matter of principle , so I ought not to stand in their way . ’ |
| 27 | They just use it as a holiday home do n't they ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | However , it is significant that modern physics appears to have had little impact on their philosophy of physics ; they still construct it as a subject which is capable of revealing absolute truths . |
| 30 | They also saw it as a chance to reduce the cost of the basic services on which they rely — the telephone , gas , electricity and water . |