Example sentences of "[verb] her as a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her fiancé has now reported her as a missing person , I believe . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mrs Nowak had impressed her as a strong woman , a woman inclined to fantasy perhaps , but resilient and not inclined to despair . |
| 6 | Her instructor , Sally Sheffield , described her as a competent first-aider who did not panic . |
| 7 | They became lovers , but Valerie did n't know that Sanquest regarded her as a mere plaything — someone he could have a little fun with ; someone he could display before his friends as his latest conquest . |
| 8 | The words in fact are intended to reflect her night-time , miserable feelings but they only reflect Masefield 's failure to render her as a human being : |
| 9 | The outskirts of her home town excited her as a magical cavern will a child . |
| 10 | ‘ I just do n't see her as a full-time mother … ’ |
| 11 | They sent her back to get another A-level , then welcomed her as a mature student at the ripe old age of 34 . |
| 12 | Surrounded by Christmas decorations John said : ‘ She was in an awful state but I will always remember her as a lovable child . ’ |
| 13 | As one who knew her and her husband only a little , I remember her as a vivacious lady of beauty and charm who worked throughout her life for many good causes . |
| 14 | Volumnia can easily be played as a sexless harridan : Ms Jefford interprets her as a passionate woman who dominates her son physically as well as spiritually , even to the extent of giving his face a resounding slap when he is recalcitrant . |
| 15 | Childhood security , her longing to return to that simpler time when her mother cherished her as a bright-haired toddler . |
| 16 | Of course the Palace ca n't afford to leave her as a loose cannon . |
| 17 | The exclamation escaped her as a startled squeak . |
| 18 | When he had taken up with Jessica he had recognised her as a wild Ulster girl , and had respected her for it . |
| 19 | The formalist critic dismisses her as a serious contender for the mantle of ‘ modern artist ’ due to a perceived lack of innovation and refusal of the essentialist mandate of formalism . |
| 20 | This may make her feel that society regards her as a second-class widow , and you may need to help those who come into contact with her to understand how important it is going to be for her future adjustment for them to treat her just as they would any other bereaved person . |
| 21 | The result is a set of pictures that expose her as a fabulous vamp with more definition than Wolf and more powerful pectorals than Panther . |
| 22 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
| 23 | But after her refusal , Carol has received a letter from the council saying it has ‘ discharged itself of the responsibility of rehousing her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 24 | After the success of Carrots and of The Cuckoo Clock the following year , which at once established her as a leading writer for children , she was to write prolifically , sometimes , as in the 1880s and early 1890s , completing seven books in a year . |
| 25 | The fact that ‘ She ’ appears to those privileged to see her as a veiled figure and that her lustrous orbs , dazzling limbs and perfect ankles are revealed with tantalising slowness , has a rather different effect on today 's readers than it no doubt had when the book was first published , very nearly a century ago , in 1887 , to be greeted with a storm of ecstasy or alternatively of appalled disapproval , which lasted for many decades . |
| 26 | If he had n't adored her he would have treated her as a credulous imbecile . |
| 27 | The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being . |
| 28 | While commentators have dismissed her as a serious contender , those who worked intimately with the Prince and watched Mountbatten 's machinations at first-hand were convinced that marriage between Prince Charles and Amanda Knatchbull was a virtual certainty . |
| 29 | Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A. |
| 30 | She thinks it is simply awful that being successful and ( reading the ill-camouflaged sub-text ) gorgeous means that men wo n't chat her up , admire her breasts or perceive her as a sexual creature . |