Example sentences of "i [verb] it [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
2 | Er , well , she she 's not being supported by the commission for year one , and in fact she wo n't be supported for year two either , so the thing that , I I 'm I 'm I put it in as a potential budget |
3 | People think I put it there as a piece of pop art to decorate the room . |
4 | I read it through as four pounds , and Brenda next to me is saying , fourteen and I had to re-read it , it , course it 's fourteen . |
5 | I read it regularly as a schoolgirl in the '40s and '50s . |
6 | I WAS told this story of a young single mother , and I pass it on as an example of life in this grand country . |
7 | ( There had always been a certain lifelessness about Jane — I felt it even as a child . |
8 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
9 | I said it more as a joke , but he took it seriously . |
10 | I have a very high opinion of Pop Art ; I regard it primarily as a phenomenon which stands apart from everything else this century . |
11 | As Lyons ( 1982 ) notes , the word subjectivity in English has some pejorative connotations ; but I see it simply as the way in which language makes provision for the expression of attitude and belief . |
12 | I see it rather as an actor 's bag of tricks , and not a very apposite one for the role . |
13 | This is the distortion of perception referred to by Bruch , but I must add that in my case I see it less as a longstanding perceptual difficulty than as a consequence of my general state of confusion as to my self-image . |