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We call the shots as we see them

I was invited to ask here. I sometimes hear the sentence "we call the shots as we see them." I want to ask whether the as-clause modifies "shots" (just like "as we know it&...
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Across languages, do adverbial adpositional phrases ever modify other adpositional phrases?

In English, I've found examples of two consecutive adverbial prepositional phrases both modifying the rest of a verb group, e.g., "He won't go out of the town because of the animals." "...
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