Example sentences of "as i [vb mod] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Punch lace ( as I shall call it ) is almost as easy as knitting Fair Isle . |
| 2 | By investigating the ways in which it has been used to explain particular phenomena , I shall aim to provide a more detailed account of absolute holism , as I shall call it , and of the mode of explanation it embodies . |
| 3 | Much as I may deplore it , for the moment you 're very much my responsibility . ’ |
| 4 | The only point is that I want that foreigner not to undersell my labour and I want him to be as competent to do the work as well as I would do it myself . |
| 5 | As I would put it , not only is justice not seen to have been done but there is no way , in the absence of reasons from the board , in which it can be judged whether in fact it has been done . |
| 6 | The basic ground rules that determine whether a new settlement concept does as I would put it get into the starting gate . |
| 7 | Not much of interest was said , and certainly not by shadowy me , though that is as I would have it . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm afraid everything 's not as I would like it to be here — you know , of course that we 've been without a Marshal for two months now — not that I ca n't cope after twenty years service in this village , but even so — ’ |
| 9 | Mr Robinson admitted that the Office of Fair Trading which pledged to investigate the complaints was ‘ not necessarily acting as quickly as I would like it to . ’ |
| 10 | Erm the bedroom does n't get as hot as I would like it |
| 11 | ‘ I run the kitchen just as I would run it in a hotel or restaurant , ’ he says . |
| 12 | ‘ What we brought into the head office was financial expertise as I 'd recognise it and it did deliver a huge benefit including giving professionally-based leadership at the centre for all the financial staff already working out there in the field . |
| 13 | But even if one is not antagonised by the appalling monotony of Mr. Lawrence 's theme , under all its splendid variations , one still turns away with the judgement : ‘ this is not my world , either as it is or as I should wish it to be . ’ |
| 14 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |
| 15 | And erm he he worked shifts , er the morning shift or the day shift as it was called , which was from erm , I do n't know as far as I could tell it was from six till two or something like that . |
| 16 | I decided then that , as soon as I could afford it , I 'd build myself a house here by the sea . |
| 17 | The tide was certainly making now , and if I kept to midstream as near as I could judge it , I should be safe enough — if I put Joanna on the mud , the making tide would soon get her off . |
| 18 | Significantly , while the particular rules of what counts as a reason ( substantive rationality ) vary across disciplines , the rules of procedural rationality ( as I will call it ) are more or less universal across disciplines . |
| 19 | Finally taking a look at the traffic on Nottingham 's roads as far as I can tell it 's all moving fairly steadily . |
| 20 | And he laughed himself as he ended , ‘ But he did n't add , ‘ and the best way you 'll learn it is to travel from one parish to another , and that 's what you 're going to do as soon as I can arrange it . ’ |
| 21 | But my mum 's pretty good you know what I mean she as long as I can arrange it round her she 'll arrange her arrangements around me sort of thing . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got a bead on him , and as long as I can hold it I 'll have him when he moves . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going to have a rest now , Fru Møller , and I 'll be down as near to six as I can make it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It 's my main home as much as I can make it so . |
| 25 | As near two thirty as I can make it . ’ |
| 26 | My work this year is very much on the ground — there will be only two abstract things — or three at the most — all the rest is objective — as objective as I can make it … |
| 27 | And that 's as good as I can make it , Kirsty . |
| 28 | I 'll be there as soon after five as I can make it . ’ |
| 29 | This is an interlude — as uncomplicated an interlude as I can make it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It means as much as I can make it mean . ’ |