Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should have heeded it as a warning , though , querida , ’ he rasped throatily . |
| 2 | Charity should have recognised it as the calm before the storm , but she did n't . |
| 3 | ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital . |
| 4 | If she had thought she was showing him a stop-light , however , he must have seen it as a green one , for his arm suddenly tightened and there was a definite amorous gleam in his eye as he edged closer to her and breathed seductively , ‘ I like you so much , Fabia . ’ |
| 5 | But an EastEnders spokesman reckons its a load of blarney : ‘ He must have said it as a joke . |
| 6 | We 'll have to treat it as a |
| 7 | ‘ If we win there before 2041 I 'll have to regard it as a bonus , ’ joked Wilkinson , frustrated at the way his players have failed to perform so often this season . |
| 8 | I might have felt it as a duty . |
| 9 | ‘ I think she might have done it as a quick way of finding out how the business worked . |
| 10 | In other words , they may have seen it as a means of safeguarding their referral patterns , which might have been threatened had they been forced to restrict themselves to contracts made by district health authority purchasers . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I may have heard it as a bedtime story when I was a small child . ’ |
| 12 | There is a reference during the mid-16th century to the mill being held from the manor by Johannis Berry , who may have worked it as a fulling mill . |
| 13 | ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’ |
| 14 | If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government . |
| 15 | The film was a Western , and without guidance Clara would have dismissed it as a childish frivolity , a glorified version of The Lone Ranger . |
| 16 | Either would have regarded it as a special achievement and in either the semi-democratic command structure would have ensured that a number of men would have participated in the decision where to detonate it . |
| 17 | He would have regarded it as a breach of etiquette for a French nobleman to present himself at court in uniform . |
| 18 | If the ancient bacteria that lived before that time had been intelligent , they would have recognized it as a very serious pollution . |
| 19 | I 'm unashamed to report that I enjoyed it a lot , and I 'm sure I would have loved it as a child . |
| 20 | I find myself dipping into my pocket and giving to causes that a decade ago I would have refused to because I would have seen it as the responsibility of the statutory sector . |
| 21 | If the Bill had stopped there , we would have supported it as an unnecessary but reasonably harmless measure , but it goes far beyond the type of incident about which we are all deeply worried . |
| 22 | A few years ago if you had a machine with a 40Mb hard drive you would have described it as a high specification machine . |
| 23 | There were obvious inaccuracies in the reports of Chai 's death which , if investigated properly , would have shown it as a case of ‘ manslaughter ’ rather than ‘ murder ’ in my own view . |
| 24 | Surely , Desmond Bonney argued , if the parish boundaries had been defined after the construction of the earthwork , they would have used it as the ‘ natural ’ boundary — much like motorways and railways have been used more recently to define new local authority boundaries . |
| 25 | Only one : nose ( for noise ) which seems worse than it is , because the misspelling has produced a rather comic word , and we may feel she ought to have recognised it as the word it is , rather than the word she meant it to be . |