Example sentences of "['s] [noun] as [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shave men regularly and arrange women 's hair as they like it . |
| 2 | It is significant in this respect that Galileo 's drawing of the moon 's surface as he saw it through a telescope contains some craters that do not in fact exist there . |
| 3 | But they were unable to spin out their game for long ; impatience got the better of them and they returned the puppy , which stood shivering under its mother 's tongue as she licked it clean of foreign influences . |
| 4 | There were hundreds of entries under Wells and a dozen or more A's ; none of them matched with Alison 's address as he remembered it ; and yet she 'd told him she was in the book . |
| 5 | And she outlined the role of an artist 's companion as she saw it . |
| 6 | Some of that almost-lost flavour can still be savoured in books like William Lutton 's ‘ Montiaghisms ’ ( 1923 , but compiled 80 or 90 years earlier ) , P W Joyce 's English as we speak it in Ireland ’ ( 1910 ) or , more recently , T G F Paterson 's Country Cracks ’ ( 1939 ) . |
| 7 | His eyes were on Rostov 's face as he strapped it on . |
| 8 | She was watching the chief inspector 's face as she said it , and she knew that he believed her , and accepted her as a good witness . |
| 9 | The only carpet was in the best room , or the visitors ' room as they called it . |