Example sentences of "we [verb] [pron] as " in BNC.

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1 Is it not possible that we apprehend them as feelings of hotness and coldness because the feelings are usually of one sort when our bodies are hot , and of another sort when our bodies are cold ?
2 Should we regard you as an American artist ?
3 Generally it falls , although I 've used as the sub-heading , I suppose the overall title of this area is perception organisation , the way that erm things become organised , how we perceive them as an organised whole .
4 We sell it as a novelty and make people sign a declaration saying they understand it is illegal to use it on the UK phone system .
5 I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms .
6 His claim that we described him as the IRA 's Chief of Staff is untrue .
7 Then after the the well there 's er the library as they called it was lined with books leather bound books great big kidney shaped oak table and beautiful chairs there and we used it as the office you know for the principal keeper did his returns and all the rest of it there .
8 We regarded ourselves as more hostages than prisoners .
9 WE WANT YOU AS A RALEIGH RECRUIT
10 But if we want it as a function , right , I give you this person 's name is Sophie say , and she maps to her father .
11 It seemed beyond belief to start with , we approached it as a trick , a lure , but now ferried confident .
12 What will we re-train them as , shop assistants ?
13 That 's a I says , What can we give them as a wedding present ? he says , I 'm giving me daughter , that 's a wedding present .
14 Alan Calladine added : ‘ We class ourselves as a working railway museum and are prepared to develop any aspect of the railway scene .
15 And erm you know as lorry drivers , we we class ourselves as the professionals of the road , but at the end of the day our standards or our reputation is tarnished by the actions of a few is n't it ?
16 He was somewhat taken aback when we identified ourselves as Customs , muttering something about clearing customs at Poole Quay later .
17 If we describe ourselves as advocates of animal rights , therefore , it is quite different from saying that we rest our case with anti-cruelty or pro-welfare .
18 How accurately do the points have to be aligned before we accept them as a ley ?
19 Procedural due process is a matter of the right procedures for judging whether some citizen has violated laws laid down by the political procedures ; if we accept it as a virtue , we want courts and similar institutions to use procedures of evidence , discovery , and review that promise the right level of accuracy and otherwise treat people accused of violation as people in that position ought to be treated .
20 Yeah , we run it as such very much .
21 Nor do we see it as part of our task to plead for a return to old-fashioned grammar teaching and learning by rote .
22 Can we run it as a part one and I 'll write part two next week ? ’
23 well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with
24 We portray ourselves as a rabble , and certainly are no example to the fourth form in a school .
25 We know he had a family — six of them have already been mentioned — but not whether they went on holiday nor where ; although here we may make an important cultural assumption : if we assume it as a norm that families go on holiday , a fact of life as inevitable as having a father , we might divide it into Given New The family spent holidays in a lakeside hunting lodge in Michigan , near Indian settlements .
26 But ‘ Miserere nostri ’ is medieval in technique as the lovely ‘ Ave rosa sine spinis ’ is in feeling , and at his finest — as in the glorious antiphon ‘ Gaude gloriosa Dei mater ’ — we hear him as the heir of the Eton composers , not of Josquin .
27 If noises are separated by very short intervals we hear them as a continuous sound .
28 Gradually we re-evaluated ourselves as women and looked at the way we had always put ourselves down .
29 Erm I mean I 'm concerned again through his eyesight that i were we to put him as the assistant and put him on a machine , that he might just put his hand somewhere and get his hand bloody trapped or whatever with his eyesight .
30 In democratic states , and even in those which see themselves as having a so-called information society ( even we define it as a society which offers increased access to information ) , some forms of censorship will be as much a part of the fabric of society as in a despotic state .
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