Example sentences of "as you [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you wind it along the needlebed , it transfers stitches from the ribbon to the main bed . |
| 2 | As you rub it in , be sure to use gentle massaging movements . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm upset , as you put it , because you did n't even have the courtesy to warn me that I might not be giving a lecture that 's due in eight days ’ time . |
| 4 | As it happened , I had a word or two more to say on the topic of — as you put it yourself — the glories of nature . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't do anything else , Bob , ’ Howard said quietly , ‘ except sit here on my tod , as you put it . |
| 6 | While you are dressing him , you should make the patient aware of what you are doing by naming each garment as you put it on , and showing him that it is the right way round . |
| 7 | ‘ No , you may not , as you put it , until you tell us what all this is about . ’ |
| 8 | However , they agreed to come back for their next session , in which Tom said , ‘ We have thought about what you said last week , and neither of us likes the idea of having ‘ tartiness ’ in our relationship , as you put it . |
| 9 | She will go elsewhere ; other managers will be glad to employ her , whether influenced by you , as you put it , or not . ’ |
| 10 | Working on a Switchboard — particularly London , where the phone rings as soon as you put it down even now they have five lines — is a continuous education and a continual reminder of your own privileged position and relative security in the gay ghetto . |
| 11 | This is the type of garment that always looks good as soon as you put it on and makes you feel comfortable and at ease , whatever the occasion . |
| 12 | Now , you 're briefed , as you put it . ’ |
| 13 | Incidentally , the train collided with the cyclist , who was stationary , not vice versa , as you put it . |
| 14 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 15 | You slagged her off , as you put it , and left her there ? |
| 16 | For what reason do you believe that a relaxation , as you put it , of the greenbelt boundary from the deposit copy to the line you now propose , north of this important village , would not do so ? |
| 17 | ‘ No , I 'm not feeling too grand , as you put it . ’ |
| 18 | Kicking the ball up field and ‘ hoping for the best ’ , as you put it , is fundamental to my strategy this season and a change in policy now would only disrupt the well-oiled machine I have created . |
| 19 | ‘ If some people think that I live in a void , as you put it , ’ said the poet on television , ‘ perhaps that tells us more about them than about me . |
| 20 | As you put it . |
| 21 | ‘ So , is there some new big fish , as you put it , who 's about to defect ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't you cut ‘ getting back ’ , as you put it . |
| 23 | ‘ If your wife fancies me — as you put it she 's been keeping it very much to herself . ’ |
| 24 | I 've travelled a bit , done things as you put it , but that does n't mean a thing . |
| 25 | ‘ Given that an angry parent might just conceivably break Gray 's neck for , as you put it , touching up his youngster , why should he go to the trouble of severing the head , and then putting it in the Cathedral font ? |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I hate to damage your enormous ego , but the last thing I want or need right now is any sort of involvement , as you put it , with a man . |
| 27 | These meet His Majesty in secret session , matters are discussed and , as you put it , conclusions are reached . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And there 's nothing ‘ on offer ’ , as you put it . |
| 29 | ‘ In any case , Lucy happens to be someone who is more than just staff — as you put it . |
| 30 | No no er erm well er there is Prunus that 's a plum I mean a cherry that grows up and various ones like that the only trouble is with these type of things they can be more of a nuisance than the trees that you do have now because those trees growing up those spindly ones as you put it erm some gardeners call them or whatever name they use I but the trouble is bits die in the centre of those and they tend to drop down and they can be in time more far more of a nuisance than the trees they 've got now which seems to me quite suitable . |