Example sentences of "i [vb past] it as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 5 | I described it as a recipe for throwing Northern Ireland into convulsion . |
| 6 | Personally , I regarded it as a good thing . |
| 7 | I regarded it as one of the safest areas of Zululand . ’ |
| 8 | I regarded it as a nuisance , regarded it as something totally unnecessary . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I recognised it as an apple tree , but no one else did . |
| 12 | ‘ But it got louder and louder until I recognised it as Benny Hill 's voice . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I felt it as a great loss because even after her retirement she remained a wonderful source of advice and inspiration to young singers . |
| 16 | ‘ I meant it as a compliment . ’ |
| 17 | You could say I meant it as a gesture . |
| 18 | I said 't would not suit you , and I meant it as a compliment . |
| 19 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 20 | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted . |
| 21 | I saw it as Men must see it and not as an eagle does . ’ |
| 22 | I saw it as a choice of what I believed to be my obligations , how I see motherhood . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw it as an exciting challenge and a chance to be nearer the business . |
| 24 | I saw it as a disaster and it happened , but I did n't think it would be such a hello-goodbye thing as it turned out to be . ’ |
| 25 | I saw it as a kid |
| 26 | That 's all I though of it about , I saw it as a really as er each stage performance was like an orgasm . |
| 27 | Just like girls were there , I was there and it was making love , that 's all I saw it as . |
| 28 | It 's for this latter meaning I chose it as the name of my new holiday company . |
| 29 | ‘ Though I have shown photographs throughout my exhibition organising career , I took it as a matter of course and have shown them as I have any other art form and along side any other art form whether it is painting or sculpture . |
| 30 | Because Lawren and Bess had an enviable collection of classical LPs I took it as an accomplishment to present them with one work they had not yet discovered but came to enjoy — it was the ‘ Eight Little Symphonies ’ by William Boyce ( 1710–1779 ) recorded in London by the Boyd Neel Chamber Orchestra — a delightful work in the manner of George Frederick Handel . |