Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reached up and gently touched it as the pall-bearers halted at the spot where her mother , on holiday from Rochdale , Lancs , was gunned down by mistake by an IRA sniper in Belfast last Friday . |
| 2 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 3 | Although marketed as a bass by Fender , Leo personally viewed it as a baritone guitar , thus creating a confusion in the minds of the company and ultimately the guitar-buying public , a confusion which was to dog the instrument throughout its career . |
| 4 | He only classed it as a nightmare because of the head , and even that had more farce to it than terror . |
| 5 | She only did it as a temporary measures just |
| 6 | And we only did it as a joke ! you ! |
| 7 | And for years I sort of just dismissed it as a sort of thing I did in my past . |
| 8 | The Regional Health Authority tonight described it as a tragic story . |
| 9 | Many fanciful explanations have been advanced to account for amber , but the Elder Pliny already diagnosed it as a fossil resin of pine and the same opinion was also entertained in China before the Tang period . |
| 10 | He just reached it as a shout carried across the room , |
| 11 | We camped about and we had our little parties , but we never really discussed it ; just accepted it as a fact of life . |
| 12 | In fact , any other time it would probably have terrified her , now she rather welcomed it as a sign that life was normal after all . |
| 13 | How Seymour ever made it as a film star is beyond me . |
| 14 | We always regarded it as a partnership , we just had n't made it official by telling the Institute or the Inland Revenue . ’ |
| 15 | So whenever she was busy sewing , Corbett always recognised it as a bad sign . |
| 16 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 17 | It was a bird that would appeal to popular sentiment ; indeed , Gould advocated its adoption as Australia 's national bird , and later used it as a motif on the covers of his Birds of Australia series , showing the male lyre-bird with the beautiful lyre-shaped plumes of its tail raised in courtship . |
| 18 | Queen 's Bay Lodge , once known as Easter Duddingston Lodge , was the home of the Jenner family , who later used it as a staff hostel . |
| 19 | In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull , and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests . |
| 20 | In the second century B.C. the Romans had gained control of the Sacred island of Delos in the Cyclades and later established it as a commercial trading post in the Mediterranean . |
| 21 | It was released in December 1945 , to an overwhelmingly positive critical response that praised its ‘ maturity ’ and ‘ realism ’ , and also hailed it as the latest success from the Coward/Lean ‘ team ’ , which had , during the Second World War , produced three notably successful films , namely In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) , and Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) . |
| 22 | Many also saw it as a means of informing the authorities of their grievances . |
| 23 | They also saw it as a chance to reduce the cost of the basic services on which they rely — the telephone , gas , electricity and water . |
| 24 | ‘ I also saw it as an excuse to eat . ’ |
| 25 | They also saw it as an opportunity to get the packages of care that they sought implemented as early as possible . |
| 26 | He probably intended it as an exact classical allusion . |
| 27 | When last we talked to AT&T 's Bob Kavner about the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs acquisition , he really downplayed it as an anti-Microsoft Corp move , pointing out that AT&T does business with Microsoft on a lot of different levels . |
| 28 | John presumably saw it as a figurative event which symbolised the purpose of Jesus ' ministry . |
| 29 | Murdoch immediately relaunched it as a tabloid and turned it against the flagship of its previous owners . |
| 30 | Once again demonstrating the resilience which had become a characteristic of his candidacy , Clinton campaigned strongly in New York , and even chose it as the venue for his first foreign policy speech since December . |