Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shut the door behind me , because I do n't want to hear it crash as I walk down the path . |
| 2 | Ah no , oh would it of not of been kinder to put it to sleep as soon as it were born ? |
| 3 | But they 're prepared to let it stand as the prices are at the moment cos they 're under pressure . |
| 4 | And today it 's as hard to believe it happened as it was thirty years ago . |
| 5 | If families like this one were on the wrong side in the Civil War , their property was sequestered by Parliament , but it appears that John Long petitioned to have it restored as his inheritance in 1650 , and it was probably he who built the present house . |
| 6 | She 'd been planning to have it repaired as soon as she could afford to , for , although she knew she could have claimed the cost through her insurance , she could n't afford to lose her no-claims bonus . |
| 7 | However , if you feel progress is too slow , you need to make slight adjustments to your food and exercise programme to get it going as you want it . |
| 8 | And most people were desperate to get stuff in them days , you know they did n't want to wait till the following week so they tried to get it paid as best they could |
| 9 | He has a bald head and a long beard , the combined effect of which is to make it appear as though his head is stuck on upside down . |
| 10 | ‘ WE WANT to make it look as though it 's a wine merchant , ’ says Tim Waters in Clapham 's Wine Rack , south London , one of Thresher 's five prototype high-street wine shops . |
| 11 | At the CNPF , France 's business and industry lobby , there are complaints that the government has been fudging figures to make it look as though targets have been met . |
| 12 | To make it look as though the ship is lost at sea . |
| 13 | The whole approach to their wardrobe is more considered , but their trick is to make it look as though they have n't given their appearance more than a passing thought . |
| 14 | Someone had arranged a scatter of sea-shore pebbles on a low trunk , trying for a random pattern to make it look as though they had been cast like dice . |
| 15 | It might be doing things at night time , leaving the lights on , to make it look as though you 're in . |
| 16 | To the horror of Home Department civil servants , they suddenly receive an order from the Home Secretary , to the effect that a quick fix is needed to make it look as though something is being done . |
| 17 | The solution , therefore , was to make it look as though they did have a choice , but to ensure that they chose Franco . |
| 18 | As though okay my sis and my sister 's right she , Andrea , she 's really trying to make it look as though she 's going that erm you Daniel and Mark are beating me up and stuff yeah ? |
| 19 | That is a valid view , but we believe that the internal market is likely to exist for the foreseeable future and that we should try to make it work as well as possible . |