Example sentences of "[verb] her as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smiled as her father began : he would have been happy being a teacher ; he had often told her that and at one stage — in the nature of parents ' bequeathing unfulfilled ambitions to their children — he had hoped that Mr Fenton might consider her as a pupil teacher ( just for the mornings , of course , he needed her the rest of the day ) . |
| 2 | They threatened that , if he did not co-operate , the Northern Ireland emergency powers of detention would be used to intern her as a dangerous subversive . |
| 3 | She thought she might avoid the place for a few days herself , just in case the boy had any ideas of adopting her as a protector . |
| 4 | Neither of them knew her well , but they would recognise her as the secretary of someone important in the administration . |
| 5 | She hoped that if he was a churchgoer-which was unlikely these days he would not recognise her as the vicar 's wife . |
| 6 | I ca n't respect her as an aunt . |
| 7 | Her fiancé has now reported her as a missing person , I believe . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |
| 9 | For , if he used her as a model , she used him as good copy . |
| 10 | But Susan Einzig had a more significant , also more complex , place in his life : though to all appearances she and Minton were a couple , he used her as a decoy to attract into their orbit , through her role as the attractive elder woman , keen on dancing and having a good time , the lusty heterosexual students whose company Minton needed and whom , when rebuffed by Susan , he scooped up on the rebound , with mocking asides about the inadequacy of women . |
| 11 | Small animals used her as a shelter , burrowing into her rotting bowels . |
| 12 | Alice Perrers 's intimacy with the king began in the 1360s , and she received lavish gifts of jewellery and clothes , together with enough property to establish her as a substantial landowner in her own right . |
| 13 | If they both ran into Viola , he would introduce her as that , and if he waited awhile , fate might save him the trouble of a divorce , anyway . |
| 14 | By the end of November John Major had succeeded her as leader of the Conservative Party , a post she had held for nearly 16 years , and as Prime Minister , an office she had held since 1979 . |
| 15 | The young man 's intentions had been honourable and he had asked his father to obtain her as a bride . |
| 16 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 17 | I 'd never considered her as a wife . " |
| 18 | You could not have thought that I had ever considered her as my wife . |
| 19 | Mrs Nowak had impressed her as a strong woman , a woman inclined to fantasy perhaps , but resilient and not inclined to despair . |
| 20 | Her instructor , Sally Sheffield , described her as a competent first-aider who did not panic . |
| 21 | On hearing of her death , Prime Minister Cavaco Silva described her as a person ‘ of exceptional quality who contributed with vigour and impartiality to the appreciation of culture in Portugal and the presentation of Portuguese culture abroad . ’ |
| 22 | Her mother described her as a dog waiting for the next command , and all she wanted to do was hold out her arms and say ‘ Come here ’ , but she was completely powerless to do anything at all . |
| 23 | At a time when dark thoughts of suicide continually crossed her mind , gossip columnist Nigel Dempster described her as ‘ a fiend and a monster . ’ |
| 24 | Another lawyer involved in the murder case , to whom I spoke last year , described her as ‘ a woman obsessed by family names , titles , and money ’ . |
| 25 | Christopher Feake [ q.v. ] described her as a gentlewoman , and her fluent and confident style points in the same direction . |
| 26 | Lady Ottoline Morrell [ q.v. ] described her as ‘ a wild moorland pony ’ . |
| 27 | Her publisher and friend Carmen Calil described her as ‘ the most original English writer of her generation ’ . |
| 28 | The woman seemed pious and withdrawn : indeed , one of the innkeepers actually described her as a nun . |
| 29 | At least I did not recognize her ; but then she was such a shrinking , washed-out-creature — when later I had lunch with one of Eliot 's former doctors he described her as ‘ an ugly little thing ’ , which was rather unkind and hardly accurate — that she could easily have escaped notice . |
| 30 | Chief gusher was American author , Camille Paglia , who described her as ‘ one of the most complex personalities of the 20th century . ’ |