Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] her [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Darling Buds Of May beauty looked tastier than ever when she made her debut as a waitress . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She used her religion as a way of not ever speaking for herself . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | She uses her tears as a natural antidote to tension and stress , which is one of their most important functions . |
| 7 | In her mind was she comforting her cat-creature as the virus bombs began to rain down ? |
| 8 | And in a series of four concerts she confirmed her status as the number one star in Japan . |
| 9 | She shook her head as a short , unexpectedly bitter laugh bubbled up from her chest . |
| 10 | She hated her job as a typist which she found boring , and there were financial difficulties as her husband was a self-employed handyman . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She began her career as a child care officer in Dorset after gaining her social work qualification at Liverpool University . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In 1860 she began her training as an infant teacher at the Home and Colonial Training College , London . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After coffee , Lyn Staniforth gave her own personal view on how she saw her role as an office admin manager . |
| 20 | For the first time in her life , she felt her power as a woman . |
| 21 | She closed her eyes as a surge of sickness came up inside her . |
| 22 | She closed her eyes as the pain of knowing rose and twisted inside . |
| 23 | She held her breath as the driver 's door opened . |
| 24 | ‘ Because , ’ said Emma patiently , ‘ he wants her to continue her career as a model . |
| 25 | She says they used her orchard as a toilet , and their property was invaded night and day . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | He respected her talent as a model , he said , and would she tell him where she was performing ? |
| 28 | It described her marriage as the ‘ most famous and most disgraced ’ in the world . |
| 29 | Instead he used her remark as the perfect occasion for a quarrel . |
| 30 | Lindsey swallowed a mouthful of too-hot coffee , feeling it burn her throat as the cup rattled into the saucer . |