Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 The local enterprise companies in Scotland would want to consider the matter , although I doubt whether at this stage we should want to regard it as the responsibility of the LECs to give individual support or subsidy to people seeking such a qualification .
2 The reader should resist the temptation to think of the law as a closed set of rules and principles , and should strive to see it as a setting in which the business of politics and government is carried on .
3 ‘ I should have heeded it as a warning , though , querida , ’ he rasped throatily .
4 Charity should have recognised it as the calm before the storm , but she did n't .
5 For it was not pure ocular seeing , or I should have seen her as a girl of the age which I have now reached .
6 ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital .
7 Old Asshe had liked him , he had been certain , and should have welcomed him as a son-in-law ; but evidently no man in the world was to be permitted to fill that position .
8 Okay he should , he should have tapped us as a resource certainly .
9 In Vologsky 's case , the very qualities which should have promoted him as a supremely efficient and dedicated cosmonaut turned and worked against him .
10 Yet Badcox Lane must have regarded her as a member of their congregation in the widest sense , at least in spirit ; when she died , aged 79 , and was buried at Catherine Hill on 18 May 1826 , the chapel entered the fact in its register .
11 If she had thought she was showing him a stop-light , however , he must have seen it as a green one , for his arm suddenly tightened and there was a definite amorous gleam in his eye as he edged closer to her and breathed seductively , ‘ I like you so much , Fabia . ’
12 But an EastEnders spokesman reckons its a load of blarney : ‘ He must have said it as a joke .
13 If there is any substance in the allegation the plaintiff must apply to join him as a defendant .
14 But it might occasionally happen that , rather than give way , the Government might prefer to reconstruct itself as a Coalition Government with the support of some middle-of-the-road members of the Opposition .
15 We 'll have to treat it as a
16 If Russell is to keep his place in the team he 'll have to prove himself as a batsman , to avoid being replaced by Stewart .
17 ‘ If we win there before 2041 I 'll have to regard it as a bonus , ’ joked Wilkinson , frustrated at the way his players have failed to perform so often this season .
18 I might have felt it as a duty .
19 ‘ I think she might have done it as a quick way of finding out how the business worked .
20 Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time …
21 Had it not been for the honey pigment of her skin , any one of her small circle of friends might have described her as a porcelain doll .
22 Whether , you know , people might have bought them as a set otherwise .
23 Eventually she might have to face him as a customer , across the counter of the shop .
24 As a learner from experience you could decide to view it as a learning opportunity and start to experiment with different ways of running the meeting .
25 ‘ We could have re-established ourselves as the football channel .
26 How much better if I could have introduced myself as a fellow poet !
27 ‘ I 'd love to keep him as a pet . ’
28 In other words , they may have seen it as a means of safeguarding their referral patterns , which might have been threatened had they been forced to restrict themselves to contracts made by district health authority purchasers .
29 ‘ I think I may have heard it as a bedtime story when I was a small child . ’
30 There is a reference during the mid-16th century to the mill being held from the manor by Johannis Berry , who may have worked it as a fulling mill .
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