Example sentences of "[verb] her as an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The streets of the city welcomed her as an old friend as she made her way unerringly towards the brilliantly lit entrance of Tivoli . |
| 2 | That book portrayed her as an insecure child , who had overcome her unhappiness at the time of her mother 's elopement by zealously nursing her younger brother . |
| 3 | Her main fear was that the court would regard her as an unfit mother because of her sexuality . |
| 4 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 5 | Flynn , of course , meant that the English government was uncaring and malignant — out to break Ireland and keep her as an inexhaustible well of cheap labour and a fertile nursery for the British army . |
| 6 | But they greeted her as an old friend . |
| 7 | George Bernard Shaw [ q.v. ] , a friend of her youth , remembered ‘ Sophie had a sunny personality that was very engaging ’ ; and this personal warmth , combined with intellect , moral purpose , culture , and commitment to making girls think , launched her as an outstanding teacher , Frances Buss 's right hand and natural successor . |
| 8 | Just as mainstream Surrealism made a point of emphasising the intuitive powers of women , and delighted in portraying her as an earthbound sorceress , so many women artists also presented their image as subject to the cycles of nature and magical forces . |