Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 32 | We tried to explain the situation as we saw it to the police . |
| 33 | Although there were thousands of lesser and hundreds of brown noddies on Cousin in October , it can not be easy to assess the population size , because with no positive ‘ summer season ’ as we know it in the temperate zones , many birds can be found breeding almost throughout the year . |
| 34 | 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 ? |
| 35 | I do n't say as good as we get it at the Club " — there was still a spark of spirit left in him — " but decidedly good . " |
| 36 | You 'll see that reflected by the European press and the public as we introduce it on the continent next year . |
| 37 | Martin seems to be missing by a distance as we joust it round the table , so after half a dozen exchanges I go down with much confidence on a half-ball cut into the bottom left-hand pocket . |
| 38 | And when we got there we started to pack the small things on the front , the l the luton as we call it over the cab . |
| 39 | ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past . |
| 40 | Medley is ‘ everywhere infinitely a picture ’ ; Lockleigh , ‘ as they saw it from the gardens , a stout grey pile , of the softest , deepest , most weather-fretted hue , rising from a broad , still moat … a castle in legend ’ , is another ‘ noble picture ’ . |
| 41 | Or as they put it in the locker-room , once you 're in , you 're in . |
| 42 | The challenge which Gandhi posed to the British , as they perceived it at the time , was not to their consciences but to their authority . |
| 43 | The heart of the matter is the provision of a physical and social environment through which the members of society may gradually withdraw from it as securely and as worthily as they enter it through the environment of home and education . |
| 44 | Gill and Jackson go on to identify eight ‘ black and mixed race couples ’ , seven ‘ mixed race ’ children and three black children , and use this sample to demonstrate that racial identity confusion , as they found it in the transracially placed children , could also be found in black children in black families and ‘ mixed race ’ children in ‘ mixed race ’ families : ‘ They provide an interesting comparison … because … same race placements are increasingly regarded as the ideal by social workers … and it is in the black and mixed race couples that ( it is said ) the child will come to develop a strong racial identity ’ ( p. 129 ) . |
| 45 | He walked swiftly beside the trolley as they wheeled it towards the Theatre lifts , and Kath told him as rapidly as she could what they had established . |
| 46 | But we must n't blame philosophers if they tell it as they see it with the aid of their philosophical telescopes and microscopes . |
| 47 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 48 | There entered her mind a memory of the feast day of the Madonna della Bruna ; it fell in July in the time of the fierce lion sun , as they called it in the hills , and yet the shrine attracted crowds from all Ninfania and all around . |
| 49 | Suppose this chap was Alexandra 's special friend , her Significant Other , as they called it in the States , would n't he get a bit peeved if some strange man appeared at the door asking for her ? |
| 50 | Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 . |
| 51 | The court then went on to apply the law as it saw it to the facts of the case . |
| 52 | When attacking , it protrudes its long snout , and as it pushes it against the flesh of its enemy it fires a small , venom-carrying harpoon — a hollow dart formed from a tooth — that can kill a human being within a few hours . |
| 53 | It unrolled as he tugged it across the bedroom floor , and inside was the blood-soaked corpse of Maria Shill . |
| 54 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 55 | He turned the car , his hands moving swiftly and expertly as he manoeuvred it in the narrow lane . |
| 56 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 57 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 58 | Each page was decorated with delicate filigree-like scrollwork in a range of dazzling colours : on one page lightly drawn angel figures , on another a priest sprinkling a shrouded corpse with holy water as he committed it to the grave . |
| 59 | Henry replied , in an open letter , ‘ It is I ’ , and over the course of no fewer than 63 pages drew a factual , logical and haunting picture of the plight of his beloved Combsburgh , as he perceived it in the winter of 1830/31 . |
| 60 | As he puts it in The Problem of Method : ‘ For us the reality of the collective object rests on recurrence . |