Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] her [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police say they 'll treat her remarks as a formal complaint . |
| 2 | Police say they 'll treat her remarks as a formal complaint . |
| 3 | She could make her living as a potter if she wanted to ; she 's a natural . ’ |
| 4 | It was important that she meet this fiancée as soon as possible , so that she could judge her suitability as a mother for Kirsty . |
| 5 | I could imagine her discomfiture as a natural approval of this evidence of my religious feeling vied with her conviction that normal people did not go to church unless compelled by the Sabbath . |
| 6 | Now she was using her pathetic pleading little voice , the one that still could affect him even though he knew she was performing , using all the tricks she used to keep her place as the most important member of her bloody drama group . |
| 7 | There is also no suggestion in any of the evidence that the mother would forego her responsibilities as a mother and would be prepared to leave the children in Australia and come to England without them . |
| 8 | Perhaps he would take her watch as a token of good faith ? |
| 9 | In his position as the British Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan announced , in July 1961 , that the British government wished to negotiate joining the Common Market , i.e. the European Economic Community , but the French President , de Gaulle , fearing that France would lose her position as the leader of the six member countries , was not keen on the British , entry , despite the agreement of the other five nations , The special relationship that Britain had with the U.S.A. was also disliked by de Gaulle and , in any event , the French government wanted special provisions to protect French agriculture , so he effectively blocked Britain 's entry into the E.E.C . |
| 10 | She would offer her breast as a blood sacrifice for life and in that moment of despair she had no doubt at all but that death would accept it and she would have to live . |
| 11 | Britain 's voluntary , though gradual , conversion of the colonial Empire into the British Commonwealth of Nations would help her recovery as a great power : her military commitments to provide overseas garrisons should diminish , and her influence was expected to be enhanced as she became the central pivot of an association of free and independent states girdling the globe . |