Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone has left us a private house in Colchester in their will and we 've decided to use it as a training house . |
| 2 | He told the jury yesterday that he had never threatened her with his truncheon , but he had offered to use it as a sexual aid . |
| 3 | But you 've got to treat it as a special case |
| 4 | It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate . |
| 5 | He had tried to keep it as a pet , and had made a cage for it and brought it dandelion leaves to eat ; but it never thrived , and had lived only a few days more . |
| 6 | The sovereignty of Parliament has been the linchpin of our unwritten and flexible constitution ; it can be traced back in our political practice and constitutional theory for almost three centuries ; and yet the constitutional authorities have come to see it as the fundamental constitutional problem needing challenge and change . |
| 7 | Most British authors have followed Winkworth ( 1932 ) and regard Nucella as a genus in its own right , ( e.g. , Fretter & Graham , 1962 ; 1985 ) whilst North Americans have tended to treat it as a sub-genus of Thais . |
| 8 | Most of those who have studied the twentieth-century constitution have ceased to see it as a living , moving thing that has to be studied historically , that has to be studied in relation to interests and political forces , and that has to be understood within the context of larger developments within society and economy . |