Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] her [noun] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 an inside on which depends her fulfilment as an organism , a person , and as a role-bearer .
2 Serbia , however , abjectly stomached the terms , save for two which violated her status as an independent country .
3 The Darling Buds Of May beauty looked tastier than ever when she made her debut as a waitress .
4 She described her protest as a " fast to the death " , but abandoned her hunger strike on May 25 after an appeal to desist by Cardinal Jaime Sin , the Archbishop of Manila .
5 Among the revelations will be of the time Cecil Parkinson swore at her in a Cabinet meeting , Kenneth Clarke telling how she used her femininity as a weapon in meetings , and Norman Tebbit and Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten talking about the horrors concealed in that famous handbag .
6 She used her religion as a way of not ever speaking for herself .
7 In ‘ Self-Confrontation and the Writer ’ she describes her life as a series of ‘ splits ’ , and the allegorical mapping of language to identity hinted at in The Languages of Love is elaborated :
8 She uses her tears as a natural antidote to tension and stress , which is one of their most important functions .
9 In her mind was she comforting her cat-creature as the virus bombs began to rain down ?
10 And in a series of four concerts she confirmed her status as the number one star in Japan .
11 She shook her head as a short , unexpectedly bitter laugh bubbled up from her chest .
12 She hated her job as a typist which she found boring , and there were financial difficulties as her husband was a self-employed handyman .
13 Her father was the kinsman , friend , and protégé of Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) , and she spent her childhood as the pampered daughter of a prospering family : ‘ I enjoyed great easiness and comfort during my honoured father 's life , having the fortunate opportunity … of the best education that kingdom could afford . ’
14 She raised her hand as a dubious Herr Nordern forced the car into almost the right gear and drove off with a curious jerking motion , then turned and went into the Centre with a look on her face which boded ill for anyone who crossed her path that day .
15 The Oxford-educated daughter of a Norfolk farmer , she began her career as a local authority education officer and inspector of schools , married a headmaster she met on site — he is now an education administrator — moved on through the ranks of Norfolk County Council and chaired Norwich Health Authority .
16 She began her career as a child care officer in Dorset after gaining her social work qualification at Liverpool University .
17 But Muriel 's climb to film direction was slow and gradual , and she began her apprenticeship as a typist and then continuity girl , rising throughout the studio hierarchy .
18 In 1860 she began her training as an infant teacher at the Home and Colonial Training College , London .
19 She broke her shoulder as a human cannonball on Noel Edmonds ' ill-fated ‘ Late , Late Breakfast Show ’ , and she had no sooner recovered from that when a car accident delayed the venture for another two years !
20 Kylie has never disguised her contempt at being sniped at by critics who dismiss her talents as an actress and as a singer .
21 Mrs Maria Ashmore , from Chalgrove in Oxfordshire told an industrial tribunal that she lost her job as a credit controller with Buckinghamshire-based Wellcom Business Communications , after she announced she was having a baby .
22 After coffee , Lyn Staniforth gave her own personal view on how she saw her role as an office admin manager .
23 There follows an attempted conspiracy by ‘ I-narrators ’ in the aim of increasing their prominence and defining their specific needs , a revolt by several characters against their authors ( most notably Oedipa Maas from The Crying of Lot 49 who declaims her views as a feminist despite Pynchon 's ‘ macho ’ stance ) , and finally , a protest by a gay rights group against the under-representation of homosexuality in literature .
24 For the first time in her life , she felt her power as a woman .
25 She closed her eyes as a surge of sickness came up inside her .
26 She closed her eyes as the pain of knowing rose and twisted inside .
27 She held her breath as the driver 's door opened .
28 ‘ Because , ’ said Emma patiently , ‘ he wants her to continue her career as a model .
29 She says they used her orchard as a toilet , and their property was invaded night and day .
30 ‘ The problem of women is all that is marvellous and troubling in the world ’ sighed Andre Breton in the second Surrealist manifesto of 1929 ; and just as the predominantly male membership saw woman as their muse , the fueller of their fantasies and liberators of their imaginations , so they used her body as a vessel and vehicle for their wildest and often dark plumbings of the subconscious .
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