Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] she as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years it had become apparent that Constance considered Brian a person of little consequence and that , this being the case , she would not have minded if he had hired the Albert Hall to denounce her as a barbarian and certainly cared nothing for his kitchen sulks and drawing-room sarcasm . |
| 2 | When she was first looking for rooms to rent , she had to pretend to be Yoruba rather than Ibo in order to persuade a Nigerian landlord to accept her as a tenant . |
| 3 | And she would spear a piece of chicken and carry it high in the air towards that great black hole of a mouth and , still talking about her therapy , her plans for the future , his inability to understand her as a woman , his crude , male-orientated sexuality , she would munch , munch , munch … |
| 4 | The young man 's intentions had been honourable and he had asked his father to obtain her as a bride . |
| 5 | I wished I had some small thing to show her as a reference : perhaps not a book , an article in a learned journal . |