Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 2 | They laughed , although she had not meant it as a joke . |
| 3 | Poles had experienced the crisis as a series of personal events ; they had not experienced it as a nation through institutions and organisations they saw as undeniably their own . |
| 4 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 5 | With his hold on the south complete within a year , William had both to confirm it as a long-term fact and reward his followers . |
| 6 | He had n't meant it as a rebuke , but Nell flinched . |
| 7 | The other , even though it was certain that he had n't meant it as a compliment , was his ‘ Brainy as well as beautiful ! ’ comment . |
| 8 | For example , relations with the Emperor Bao Dai , who was to be told on Acheson 's instructions , when he arrived back in Saigon in October 1950 , that many people including a great number of Americans , had been unable to understand the reasons for his ‘ prolonged holiday ’ on the French Riviera and had indeed misinterpreted it as an indication of lack of patriotic attachment to his role of Chief of State . |
| 9 | Yesterday civil service union leaders complained that security staff had initially treated it as a hoax . |