Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to use it as the chance to turn my life around . |
| 2 | ‘ A pastor I knew used it as the basis of his final sermon , before facing his greatest fear . |
| 3 | Well again , I , I , I had to do it as a kid but I did n't afterwards but er , I er , tell you about this chap and I even went back and told him . |
| 4 | Some of them seemed to view it as a sort of health cure . |
| 5 | The hedgehog itself was 19 stitches wide and she had saved it as a 23-stitch pattern repeat . |
| 6 | Surely she had taken it as an ill omen ? |
| 7 | ‘ We managed to sell it as a going concern , but got next to nothing for it and had to take a massive write-off . |
| 8 | Bob Rafelson had been toiling with Nicholson 's friend and associate Carol Eastman on a script for a new film and as it came towards completion , they began to see it as a perfect vehicle for BBS to capitalize on its success with Easy Rider . |
| 9 | ‘ When they had read the publicity material offering help for the recently bereaved they had read it as an opportunity to be out and meet people again . |
| 10 | Then he decided to treat it as a joke and giggled . |
| 11 | Yanto Gates was not given to quick decisions or mad impulses , but the girl in reality matched his dreams of her so perfectly that he had to take it as a sign . |
| 12 | Not only had he made a unique and convulsing impact on this generous but hard-headed man , he had made it as an actor . |
| 13 | He had inherited it as an agreeable but mildly onerous responsibility , together with her considerable fortune . |
| 14 | In his deliberations whether to sell or keep on the mill as a holiday home he had seen it as a refuge from London , eccentric and remote , providing a temporary escape from the demands of his job and the pressures of success . |
| 15 | Last summer was in Peter 's mind too , he had seen it as a failure , here he was going to put it right , he was enjoying the fear , he was Jamie dogfighting in the sky , he was very calm , very cold . |
| 16 | He had used it as a conveyance . |
| 17 | He had chosen it as a desperate , populist issue , yet the audience was even cooler than the unenthusiastic crowds the embattled Democrat had faced elsewhere . |
| 18 | He intended to regard it as an incident of the utmost gravity . |