Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] it as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says I have just bought this pram from a jumble sale and I am thinking I may use it as a flower pot and maybe make some model babies out of flowers . |
| 2 | OK , I knew I was better than anyone in my school , but it never occurred to me that I might do it as a profession . ’ |
| 3 | a green one or something , but I 'll do it as a red one |
| 4 | I 'll repair it as a favour if my plans go through . ’ |
| 5 | I 'll take it as such ! ’ |
| 6 | I 'll acknowledge it as a possibility . ’ |
| 7 | Erm the training course er as I said two days er I 'll count it as a full training course . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I could do it as an outsider , as an Englishman coming in , ’ Schlesinger claimed . |
| 9 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 10 | ‘ If only I could see it as a tourist one day , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 11 | If that were all , I 'd applaud it as a wise and public-spirited action and I hope it starts a trend . |
| 12 | ‘ Luis , ’ I said , ‘ even in England , if a man called me that , I 'd take it as great rudeness . |
| 13 | I 'd like Elizabeth to bring that forward yep for my benefit , as I know I have n't done it and I 'd like it as a prompt . |
| 14 | you 've got proof , and I used to check it as a form teacher every , at the end of every week tick it and sign it I I only had about what , twenty in the class used to , every end of every week check and see they 're writing their homework down and if any problems came of it had n't written it down they were in trouble ! |
| 15 | That does not mean that I would discard it as an instrument of statutory interpretation even were I empowered to do so . |
| 16 | Quite clearly , to the shame of local and central government , the homelessness crisis has been allowed to get to such a level that I would describe it as a national disgrace . ’ |
| 17 | Summarised , I would describe it as a kind of ‘ elitist populism ’ , which totally ignores the tastes of thousands of ‘ ordinary people ’ . |
| 18 | Well I thought I would use it as a raffle prize at school or something . |
| 19 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 20 | Erm , yes Chairman , the , the suggestion of the recommendation if you like , that er , Reginald 's erm , proposal it is , er to participate is , is er , rejected by er , I do n't particularly feel that way about it , that erm , if , apart from the fact that the contribution is sizable , and I do n't think that we 'll get all that many applications from the Regional District Council anyway , but erm , I would n't see harm at all of both Oswestry and Bridgenorth being allowed to send a representative if there were any applications , it 'd be good for their area , er , and er , even if they were n't allowed to vote on it , and I suppose they should n't be allowed to vote on it , erm , I , I would see it as erm , another attempt , another avenue to , towards partnership between District Council and the County Council development . |
| 21 | Although the limb is three-dimensional I will treat it as if it were two-dimensional and only consider position with respect to two axes , the antero-posterior axis which runs across the limb from digit 2 to digit 4 , and the long , or proximo-distal axis , which runs from the shoulder to the tip of the digits . |
| 22 | And then I said well I will buy it as a joint sort of joint family Christmas present |
| 23 | And I will read it as farm tenants of Leicestershire county council we wish to retain the freedom to make the decision ourselves as to whether fox hunting with hounds takes place on our land . |
| 24 | So I can take it as as gospel this morning that some of these franchises will be fifteen years , how many might be fifteen years , might they all be fifteen years ? |
| 25 | We both argued that the levels of er housing development in Craven , Harrogate and to a lesser extent perhaps Amblet Hambleton should not be constrained , so as to reduce erm the the steady trickle if I can describe it as that of migration from the West Yorkshire conurbation to those areas , in perhaps er l looking at the different proposal for the new settlement which might be located in the Leeds York corridor . |
| 26 | I can remember it as if it were yesterday . |