Example sentences of "[to-vb] she as [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | Of course the Palace ca n't afford to leave her as a loose cannon . |
| 4 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For example , in 1983 it was said that ‘ even where the husband had been violent , it would be reasonable for the wife to continue to reside in the matrimonial home but to seek a court order restraining his violence or barring him from the home ’ and in these circumstances the authority 's duty would be ‘ to advise the applicant so to do , not to accommodate her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 7 | Similarly , to describe her as a magic realist fails to root her in her own folk tradition , whose poetic fantasy and bizarre humour have nourished a stream of ‘ literary ’ writers before her , from Gogol to Venedikt Yerofeev . |
| 8 | When you consider the life of Hannah Hauxwell and the privations she has quietly suffered for most of her life , it is reasonable to describe her as a true daughter of Balder . |
| 9 | Many right-wing back-bench critics of the government ( but supporters of Mrs Thatcher ) could voice their criticism without including her and liked to present her as a political prisoner of Cabinet ‘ Wets ’ . |
| 10 | Hughes took the British junior team to Austria earlier this year , and the BJA has agreed to employ her as a part-time coach when she retires after the Commonwealth Games . |
| 11 | Pebbles , whose owner had been required to stump up $240,000 to supplement her as a late entry , started 11–5 favourite , with Greinton ( whose gallant run against Teleprompter in the Arlington Million two months earlier is described on pages 96–7 ) at 135 . |