Example sentences of "it [verb] to [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bridge in Darlington that proudly displays the Teasdale Bros name is Stonebridge although the plaque on it refers to it as St Cuthbert 's Bridge . |
| 2 | It belongs to us as individuals regardless of the power of the State or the claims of the State . |
| 3 | It occurred to him as a possibility , for instance , that , prior to being ‘ kept alive ’ for ten days , Dobson might first have been murdered . |
| 4 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 5 | It looks to me as if the situation was that the Inquisition would have liked to do nothing but was forced to do so by the detailed and documented evidence claiming that Galileo was in fact a heretic . |
| 6 | ‘ It looks to me as if there 's some system of getting service that you do n't grasp . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It looks to me as if someone tried to murder him , ’ whispered Dexter as an afterword . |
| 8 | It looks to me as if the Doctor manipulated Paula Engado 's feelings with a faked message from her adulterous lover Cheryl Russell to the effect that Cheryl would n't leave her husband , Sam . |
| 9 | And it looks to me as if you do , too ? ’ |
| 10 | It looks to me as if we 've forgotten how to retreat . |
| 11 | He stiffened when he saw them and Devlin said cheerfully , ‘ Very pretty , son , but it looks to me as if someone 's been spoiling your good looks . ’ |
| 12 | And looking at the traffic on the railways , it looks to me as if it 's all absolutely wonderful , hunkydory and everything else , so er unless you 're er er bl s No no no no all the trains right up to the er nine minutes past one Harrogate train er , and the four minutes past one Plymouth train , all seem to be bang on train . |
| 13 | And it looks to me as if you two lovely people were just made for each other ! ’ |
| 14 | It looks to me as if it 's going to blooming rain again . |
| 15 | A senior Special Branch officer said last night : ‘ It looks to us as if one person kept replaying the conversation to ham operators . |
| 16 | They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound . |
| 17 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 18 | It came to her as a shock that , although she had an excellent opportunity to be acquainted with high school children through her son , she did not know any of his friends . |
| 19 | It came to him as a Revelation , descending upon his mind in all its complex glory , that there was a man in the City in need of his help , and that the man — his name did n't matter-would free everyone as this awakening had freed him . |
| 20 | It seemed to her as if every hair on her body , every roughness of skin , unevenness of toenail , snagged on the sticky , shiny fibres . |
| 21 | When she saw Andrew it seemed to her as if her heart had stopped beating . |
| 22 | Suddenly it seemed to her as if the whole world wanted to know about every detail of her life . |
| 23 | It happened to me as a player at Everton with Gordon Lee 15 years ago . |
| 24 | It sounds to me as if you all need a jolly good thrashing . |
| 25 | It sounds to me as if that sort of religion has nothing to do with God . |
| 26 | Oh , it sounds to me as if you miss the days when there was a bit more action on , |
| 27 | It sounds to me as if there are too many people that want to get into Sussex in English , and not so many that wanting to get Chemistry . |
| 28 | It sounds to me as if it could be a bit worrying to think that when you went to see your doctor you 'd be faced by a machine instead of a human being the other side of desk . |
| 29 | Since then I am called ‘ Majesty ’ and it seems to me as if I was part of a play . |
| 30 | ‘ It seems to me as if Madeleine is going to decide matters for you , ’ Alice said quietly . |