Example sentences of "[vb past] it as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
| 2 | Frank Muir , introducing the slot , described it as the television industry 's favourite play . |
| 3 | ‘ A pastor I knew used it as the basis of his final sermon , before facing his greatest fear . |
| 4 | Then after the the well there 's er the library as they called it was lined with books leather bound books great big kidney shaped oak table and beautiful chairs there and we used it as the office you know for the principal keeper did his returns and all the rest of it there . |
| 5 | She had plenty of wool , so kept the sleeve and used it as the material for her cushion . |
| 6 | Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances . |
| 7 | The left side of his face , in the region of the jaw articulation , looked at first sight as though it had been smashed by a blow , but Wycliffe recognised it as the wound of exit of a bullet which had probably ricochetted inside the skull . |
| 8 | He recognised it as the hand of his father , missing now for countless years . |
| 9 | Its institutional imprecision and evident anachronism weakened it as the basis for a compromise settlement ; whatever its intention , the fate of the Persian Manifesto was to serve as a base from which to sally against liberalism and all its works . |
| 10 | She had expected pain , almost welcomed it as the payment for ridding herself of her despised virginity which had labelled her in her own mind as undesired — unloved . |
| 11 | Cambridge 1 Millwall 0 DION DUBLIN , Cambridge 's top-scorer , started the game on the bench but finished it as the match-winner , following an inspired double-substitution by manager John Beck at half-time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In The New York Times , Vincent Canby thought McQueen was ‘ as all-American as a Rover Boy ’ and Hoffman was ‘ not especially convincing ’ , but he enjoyed it as the sort of ‘ escapist movie we used to go see on Saturday night without even bothering to read the marquee ’ . |
| 14 | In 1864 he purchased Sentry Fields extending from the top of Seymer Road to Durlston Head and developed it as the Durlston Park estate . |
| 15 | " Womb " was an intimate and horrifying word although you heard it as the incarnation of the Virgin . |
| 16 | Some saw it as the beginning of the end of Nazism , which had again almost ‘ run itself to death with victories ’ . |
| 17 | Old Joseph saw it as the beginning of his retreat into loneliness and isolation . |
| 18 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 19 | But the party fell into the hands of those who saw it as the spokesman of the organized workers in politics , a view which combined the Left and Centre . |
| 20 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 21 | They saw that how that , they saw the Chinese problem essentially as one of exploitation and that how that as soon as , that they saw it as the land problem |
| 22 | Of course , Marx and Engels focused most on this late stage , since they saw it as the cause of the rise of capitalism . |
| 23 | It was the best time John-Augustus had spent with Mary and he saw it as the reward for his charitable act . |
| 24 | He had inherited a view of the cross which saw it as the place where Christ did something which changed God 's mind about human beings . |
| 25 | When you walked into the well what I would call a cupboard but they classed it as the bathroom . |
| 26 | It 's for this latter meaning I chose it as the name of my new holiday company . |
| 27 | Many of its people were farmers too , though several were merchants as well — two drapers , a mercer , a haberdasher and a wax-chandler , and in 1584 Archdeacon Robert Johnson chose it as the location of one of the two grammar schools with which he endowed the county . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He took it as the closing of the incident . |
| 30 | The initial agreement made was a licensing agreement whereby Rover ( then known as BL ) assembled the Honda Ballade from 1981 onwards with limited alterations and sold it as the Triumph Acclaim . |