Example sentences of "as mr [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had several phone calls from Japan to deal with , and a request from a Bombay-based Hindu businessman that he fly out in the next few weeks to — as Mr Kapoor put it — ‘ spring clean ’ his collection of modern primitives . |
| 2 | As Mr Armitage puts it : ‘ We may not be hitting the quantity , but we are certainly getting the quality . ’ |
| 3 | A third theme will be nature , or as Mr Zhu put it , ‘ people 's desire for tranquility , harmony and purity ’ . |
| 4 | As Mr Hamilton explains it , this is not an attack on its authority but merely an attempt to establish communication ‘ with the outside world . ’ |
| 5 | As Mr Chatrier put it : ‘ All I would ask of any successor is that he will always try to put the best interests of the sport before money . |
| 6 | As Mr Charles described it , all three passengers seemed to be overcome as one by the realization of what an imposing physical force my father was . |
| 7 | As Mr Cameron puts it , ‘ At the very time when most people want and need mobility — during the morning and evening peak periods — the system actually carries fewer of them than it does at various off-peak times . ’ |
| 8 | As Mr Thompson put it : ‘ Leasing is too well established . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You only find out after marriage what a load of rubbish they are , ’ as Mr Llambias puts it . |
| 10 | Because we know that , as Mr Cormack puts it , ‘ not all leavers ’ who go to England and Scotland to take their degrees ‘ are willing leavers ’ . |
| 11 | Endill ran to the cart as Mr McDoodle brought it to the house . |
| 12 | The reason he did not start this game was that , as Mr Wilkinson put it ‘ he did not get a kick ’ , when Leeds were beaten 4–0 , their heaviest defeat of the season , by Manchester City a week earlier . |
| 13 | Xerox has , as Mr Zelmer puts it , ‘ 100,000 hearts and minds focused on customer satisfaction ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ The biggest executive operation , ’ as Mr Montagu puts it , is the benefits system , the largest single employer in the Civil Service ( 70,000 staff ) and distributor of the largest single chunk of public expenditure ( about £50bn ) . |
| 15 | As Mr Kinsley put it , they should have had another plank : ‘ A united Ireland through consent ’ should have been followed by ‘ cheaper air fares through the abolition of gravity ’ . |