Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone tried to make a golf course in the water meadows ; another tried to run it as a pub , and put close-fitting carpets over the flags . |
| 2 | Some of them seemed to view it as a sort of health cure . |
| 3 | Even to him it was now barely imaginable , and other eagles he mentioned it to seemed to take it as a lie and untruth , and were angry at him for trying to delude them . |
| 4 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 5 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 6 | ‘ Had you and Mrs Marshall planned to use it as a weekend retreat , perhaps ? |
| 7 | We staggered out and began to use it as a battering ram against the locked door . |
| 8 | Then he decided to treat it as a joke and giggled . |
| 9 | It was not until Evelyn Underhill ( 1875–1941 ) and Dean Inge ( 1860–1954 ) began to consider mysticism seriously that Anglicans started to see it as a spirituality that was authentically Christian . |
| 10 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 11 | Handed over in 1939 by Its owners In response to an advertisement in The Times , Youth Allyah decided to use it as a transit camp for refugee children who were waiting for permanent hachshara . |
| 12 | I decided to use it as the chance to turn my life around . |
| 13 | The others decided to take it as a signal , and along with Paul and Agnes jumped out of their armchairs and hurried to their cars . |
| 14 | The Cabinet in turn chose to treat it as the beginning of the General Strike . |
| 15 | ‘ A pastor I knew used it as the basis of his final sermon , before facing his greatest fear . |
| 16 | When , during a home game in February 1927 , Hardy shouted from the touchline to a player to move up-field , Chapman chose to regard it as a breach of his authority and arranged for Hardy to move to Tottenham , where a vacancy had conveniently arisen . |
| 17 | Well it was a system that er was n't liked but it was operated because , in my opinion anyway , because the employers er had seen it as a way of getting more work out of you . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ironically , 25-year-old Josephine had made it as a TV star when Craig was a pipe layer dreaming of fame . |
| 21 | Not only had he made a unique and convulsing impact on this generous but hard-headed man , he had made it as an actor . |
| 22 | The great bulk of Liberal and Marxist writing about war had presented it as an activity which no radical could support and which all must fight to prevent . |
| 23 | Gilbert Scott had said that it was ‘ on the whole , my finest church ’ , but Colonel Akroyd , who had built it as the centrepiece of his remarkable village of Akroyd , had never sufficiently endowed it . |
| 24 | The ancient nomes had used it as a kind of lift , but it did n't have wires — it went up and down by some force as mysterious as auntie 's gravy or whatever it was . |
| 25 | He had used it as a conveyance . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Despite the fact that Gassendi and Boyle took care to find a place for God and the soul in their revivals of the theory , its adherents had perpetually to struggle against the undeniable fact that Epicurus had introduced it as a foundation for his explicit materialistic atheism . |
| 28 | By and large , the more important a command ( importance being judged by the size of territorial authority , or , more appropriately in time of peace , by the numbers of men involved ) the more likely it was to be given to a man who had achieved it as a result of attendance at court . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Yet Alfred had chosen it as a place to die and David had said of his father : ‘ … for him it is one of those special places . ’ |