Example sentences of "he [verb] it as the " in BNC.

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1	He described it as the ‘ best news since 1948 ’ when the National Party came to power on the policy of apartheid , which eventually led to South Africa 's ban from the international rugby arena until this year .
2	He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated .
3	He recognised it as the hand of his father , missing now for countless years .
4	Langland 's imaginative perception of Will 's growth from experiencing this tension as destructive to a state where he sees it as the opportunity for love parallels the written witness of the mystics .
5	Economically , he sees it as the difference between the hare and the tortoise : the free market model with its exciting instability , its romantic success stories , its idealistic zeal ; the social market with its patient , unspectacular , benign growth , and its cultural cohesion .
6	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 ’ .
7	He regards it as the greatest force at man 's disposal .
8	He regards it as the Big Smoke .
9	He took it as the closing of the incident .
10	Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained .
11	He saw it as the only realistic long term solution to Selborne 's dilemma .
12	It was the best time John-Augustus had spent with Mary and he saw it as the reward for his charitable act .
13	Thompson on the other hand was keen to await the Great Eastern 's launch , for he envisioned it as the ideal cable-layer .
14	He accepted it as the word of God .
15	He ended it as the kid who can fill them .

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