Example sentences of "as you [vb mod] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity . |
| 2 | Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity . |
| 3 | I think that diving can be as calorie consuming as you would like it to be . ’ |
| 4 | Taplow , the poor sod as you would put it , was tortured , bullied , to say what he did in court but then Mandeville had to make sure he did not tell the truth afterwards . |
| 5 | anybody like to start what what are the minuses of retirement , or a minus of retirement as you would see it ? |
| 6 | ‘ Allo , messieurs , I have arrived as you would have it , in the Nicholas , n'est-ce pas ? ’ he said . |
| 7 | It 's not maybe as rare as you ought to have it but it really tastes nice . |
| 8 | Now , if child survival were simply a question of affluence as you might think it was , there 's no way you could explain these figures . |
| 9 | And the answer to the questioner is n't , is n't an arcane as you might think it is . |
| 10 | As you 'll appreciate it , we 've put one or two papers together into one paper , and therefore the numbering tends to repeat itself , so we 're on page one again , but under the heading of the budget for ninety four , ninety five . |
| 11 | And it would be impossible to use the main staircase , because as you 'll recall it is immediately next to Reception there . |
| 12 | No they was , used to cut it up smaller so as you could handle it . |
| 13 | Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there . |
| 14 | what was Mr attitude to spending on national advertising in so far as you could work it out ? |
| 15 | I could do about six different costing forms , so it 's not like you could have a yellow wallet , because , presumably he 's saying we want a yellow wallet with enquiry form , a costing form , and that is as far as you could have it anyway . |
| 16 | For the zig-zag row and the circular rows , the stitch tension is usually as tight as you can make it . |
| 17 | First , a murder should be , as far as you can make it so , attention-grabbing . |
| 18 | See you there as soon as you can make it . ’ |
| 19 | That 's so as you can watch it looking at telly ! |
| 20 | Yeah and er look I think the process is that you do work and you feel passionate about it , you wan na do it the best you think you 've done it as well as you can do it , and then you put it out in whatever form , in a T V series like Love Hurts or on stage like Alfie , or in an album like Midnight Postcards and you then just pray and hope that people want to listen to you , want to watch you , want to hear you . |
| 21 | Still , it might be worth booking a session as soon afterwards as you can manage it , even if that is the next day . |
| 22 | ‘ As you can see it 's already made ’ |
| 23 | Our NCT Branch Year is outlined on page 22 and as you can see it is fairly busy . |
| 24 | As you can see it 's quite simple due to the fact that only the controls , input/output sockets , transformer and board mounting holes are required . |
| 25 | As for the briefcase rack idea , as you can see it 's very neat . |
| 26 | Now I , I often gives in , in schools , and I particularly show that slide because as you can see it goes up to the year twenty forty er now I shall be a hundred and four in the year twenty forty I wo n't ask you to calculate what age you will be in the year twenty forty it might be quite large erm |
| 27 | But erm the paintwork was always , inside a house was always brown , like this is , as you can see it 's woodwork , it was it was a colour like a chocolaty brown . |
| 28 | Well that has to come out of their capital and as you can see it takes out quite a large chunk . |
| 29 | Erm as you can see it 's er had quite a lot of damage on it since we actually came back but er it 's been a very very trustworthy er propeller and engine . |
| 30 | Lot thirty seven is an Edison Gem phonograph as you can see it has some cylinders with it er fifty pounds for it , fifty pounds any bids , five , sixty , five , seventy five , eighty , ninety , one hundred a hundred pounds and ten any more at a hundred and ten ? |