Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door , he entered it just as I was catching up with him . |
| 2 | The government 's representative at the inquiry , Energy Department official Christopher Wilcock , described it openly as ‘ a broad , political — and I stress the word political — strategic judgement ’ . |
| 3 | When he saw the finished portrait Cocteau was shaken and described it privately as ‘ diabolical ’ . |
| 4 | Other car industry sources described it variously as " utopian " and " unreasonable " , and said it was not being taken seriously . |
| 5 | Border described it all as media nonsense , saying he had , in fact , stayed behind to attend to some personal business . |
| 6 | She used it now as she said , ‘ It 's so sweet of Susan to spare you tonight . |
| 7 | The challenges facing it were daunting : a considerable proportion of the UN was opposed to its existence ; the predominant political forces in south Korea regarded it simply as providing a veneer of international respectability for the creation of a south Korean state ; north Korea had no intention of helping it in any way and the United States believed the commission should complete its task swiftly and without asking awkward questions . |
| 8 | He identified it immediately as coming from the Sark Pottery . |
| 9 | They say that 30 years ago everyone recognised it instantly as belonging to the late of Orwell Lodge ( 's step great-grandmother ) . |
| 10 | Hurst 's voice had risen a little , but he dropped it again as he realized that several pairs of eyes were watching them with interest . |
| 11 | There was a slight tremor to the hand she had raised , as if she could hold off the madness that way , and she dropped it swiftly as she absorbed the hardness of his saturnine face and the overt demand glittering hotly in his eyes . |
| 12 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 13 | But he rejected it almost as soon as it crossed his mind . |
| 14 | Well I noticed it soon as I got to there . |
| 15 | He put a large hand on her knee , then withdrew it swiftly as she cringed away . |
| 16 | Matthew sliced it diagonally as Lizzie had described and gave them their portions . |
| 17 | Nicolo took her hand and swung it gently as they walked . |
| 18 | ‘ You and your little nerves , ’ he said and he put his fingers in the back of the collar of my dress and pulled it slightly as though I was a recalcitrant dog . |
| 19 | ‘ A beautiful baby girl , ’ she said and swaddled it tightly as is the custom . |
| 20 | He repeated it wonderingly as though the thought had never crossed his mind . |
| 21 | She had lost her cap , and so could not again conceal the glory of her hidden beauty , but she twisted the plait in a knot behind her head and clipped it there as best she could with the two pins she had found , so that it resembled the thick queue of a man 's old-fashioned wig . |
| 22 | Spread the sail and lay it flat as possible with the underside uppermost . |
| 23 | Coleridge viewed it rather as another home for Pantisocracy , even though his companions and fellow believers were reduced now to Sara herself and George Burnett . |
| 24 | But Jonas Hamilton saw it immediately as he opened the door to her . |
| 25 | And well I remember hearing about it and and saw it probably as I grew up myself . |
| 26 | With his law of primitive socialist accumulation Preobrazhensky saw it essentially as being conditions which were imposed upon the Soviet economy ; either the state sector will grow or it will succumb to the private sector , but the ‘ law ’ itself is only manifested by a series of conditions which were conscious acts upon the part of the Soviet state , since it involved plans and planning . |
| 27 | It is not surprise therefore , that I heard the story there and I related it exactly as I remember hearing it . |
| 28 | I found my penknife and kept it close as the shadow of a vulture wheeled over the tent . |
| 29 | ‘ Seems that everyone appreciated the joke and took it exactly as we intended them to , even your friend Lewis in the end . ’ |
| 30 | She admitted it tempestuously as Luke deprived her of the erotic stimulation of his mouth , opening her eyes just in time to see the blaze of triumph in his as he heard her . |