Example sentences of "i [verb] it as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 2 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 3 | so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're |
| 4 | The shepherd says , " I always take the best milk I possess , and I bring it as an offering to God . " |
| 5 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 6 | I approached it as a pilgrim , though today of course it looks like any other golf club ; the members are indigenous and they are Japanese . |
| 7 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 8 | I described it as a recipe for throwing Northern Ireland into convulsion . |
| 9 | Personally , I regarded it as a good thing . |
| 10 | I regarded it as one of the safest areas of Zululand . ’ |
| 11 | I regarded it as a nuisance , regarded it as something totally unnecessary . |
| 12 | I regarded it as a very happy accident that I went to U.C.L. to study English , not knowing at the time that I was going to a Department and to a College distinguished for English language studies . |
| 13 | The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen . |
| 14 | I recognised it as an apple tree , but no one else did . |
| 15 | ‘ But it got louder and louder until I recognised it as Benny Hill 's voice . |
| 16 | I picture it as a large , grey , multi-headed dragon . |
| 17 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 18 | Oh , I read it as a warning . |
| 19 | ‘ Pity , Jane , is an insult from some people , but from you I accept it as the mother of love . |
| 20 | I accept it as part of something that has to happen . |
| 21 | When I raised it as Chairman at the General Management Committee , I was disgusted to find that people laughed at the very subject that was so important to women who 've come up here today to let us know the consequences of what was happening . |
| 22 | I remember it as if it was yesterday . |
| 23 | And er there was the er the kids from his erm he w he was going to school when he died and er there was children from his class walking along cos they we they used to walk to the cemeteries then and carrying a wreath of er flowers , I remember it as if it was yesterday . |
| 24 | The Jolly Farmers has been demolished , but I remember it as a brick and pantile structure at the top end of the town . |
| 25 | I remember it as , I think , I think I think I remember there was like three or four people inside it or something , certainly was n't a |
| 26 | I found something a shade patronizing in her attitude , and I interpreted it as an attempt to upstage me ; perhaps to test me , to see if I was worth playing against . |
| 27 | I felt it as a great loss because even after her retirement she remained a wonderful source of advice and inspiration to young singers . |
| 28 | ‘ I meant it as a compliment . ’ |
| 29 | You could say I meant it as a gesture . |
| 30 | I said 't would not suit you , and I meant it as a compliment . |