Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.

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1 Then he decided to treat it as a joke and giggled .
2 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 .
3 Not only had he made a unique and convulsing impact on this generous but hard-headed man , he had made it as an actor .
4 He had inherited it as an agreeable but mildly onerous responsibility , together with her considerable fortune .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 He had used it as a conveyance .
8 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 .
9 He intended to regard it as an incident of the utmost gravity .
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