Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] it as a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I should have heeded it as a warning , though , querida , ’ he rasped throatily .
2 ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital .
3 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 . ’
4 But an EastEnders spokesman reckons its a load of blarney : ‘ He must have said it as a joke .
5 We 'll have to treat it as a
6 ‘ 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 .
7 I might have felt it as a duty .
8 ‘ I think she might have done it as a quick way of finding out how the business worked .
9 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 .
10 ‘ I think I may have heard it as a bedtime story when I was a small child . ’
11 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 .
12 ‘ 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 . ’
13 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 .
14 The film was a Western , and without guidance Clara would have dismissed it as a childish frivolity , a glorified version of The Lone Ranger .
15 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 .
16 He would have regarded it as a breach of etiquette for a French nobleman to present himself at court in uniform .
17 If the ancient bacteria that lived before that time had been intelligent , they would have recognized it as a very serious pollution .
18 I 'm unashamed to report that I enjoyed it a lot , and I 'm sure I would have loved it as a child .
19 A few years ago if you had a machine with a 40Mb hard drive you would have described it as a high specification machine .
20 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 .
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