Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid that her reply was not as sympathetic as the contribution that she made as a Back Bencher when talking about Florence Smith . |
| 2 | But her cause was badly damaged in 1985 , the day before she was to sit next to the Prince of Wales at a dinner in Florida , when it was revealed that she posed as a nude model in magazines and appeared in pornographic films in the late 1960s . |
| 3 | Suddenly unease rose inside her and she faltered as a sudden thought struck her . |
| 4 | She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog . |
| 5 | Spain did not become a great mercantile nation because she failed as a naval power to retain political control of her great empire , and as a producer to supply cheap goods . |
| 6 | Joan Reid has been a student at Malvern Hills college since she retired as a civil servant on health grounds — now she 's learning new skills in the upholstery class . |
| 7 | There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life . |
| 8 | She was defeated when she stood as a National Labour candidate in 1931 . |