Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] as [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says privatisation , or denationalization as he calls it , will make the railways run better . |
| 2 | well perhaps , but women get very angry as well , but nothing seems to change , I mean what the heck do you do about it when some estimable er gentleman and it almost invariably must be a gentleman since their by far the huge proportion of er presiding judge 's and magistrate 's comes out with that kind of comment about er a woman 's victim reputation or behaviour as he sees it , I mean what is , what is the answer there ? |
| 3 | He spoke slowly , deliberately , first in the music of Quechua then in Spanish , or Castellano as he called it , stopping to emphasise his points with a jabbing , rhetorical ‘ eh-eh ? ’ |
| 4 | Between Christmas and New Year , sitting writing the notes for this course , I was very twitchy about how successful it would be , and now quite happy talking to the children and school teachers and listening to the hubbub of questions and pleasure as they do it , that the thing is working . |
| 5 | He dreamed of it and of himself catching it ; imagining it lunging and threshing as he played it and tussled to land it . |
| 6 | It is true that there is a distinction between art as it is used develop mentally in schools and art as we know it in the world , but for most people is n't art what we knew it as in school ? |
| 7 | It makes up 70–80 per cent of the bodies of all living things — and life as we know it would be impossible without it . |
| 8 | It was to be made in whole and smashed bricks , the whole bricks to represent the walls of the world — the Berlin Wall , the Walls of Jericho , the Western ( Wailing ) Wall , the Great Wall of China and Hadrian 's Wall — and the smashed bricks to represent the breakdown of Jewish life and status as they knew it . |
| 9 | Each curricular area has a carefully planned programme of work designed to enable pupils to develop at a pace and at a level suited to their age and ability as we feel it is imperative that children experience success in whatever they do . |
| 10 | Put in the baldest terms , one can say that the result of all this was that man — or , perhaps I should say , the hominid ancestors of modern man — became able to hunt and that , with the success of the hunting economy , came culture and civilization as we know it and with it its psychological corollary : the superego . |