Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] her as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | However , a safer and a wiser idea is to take up what I began with : Phyllis Bottome telling how Pound , when they were both young , tried to turn her as a writer from an amateur into a professional . |
2 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
3 | He 'd pictured her as a woman willing to trade physical favours in exchange for her goals . |
4 | Her mother-in-law 's days were spent at her embroidery or visiting friends whom Tamar felt despised her as an outsider . |
5 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
6 | He snatched his furniture from the house and dumped it on a tip , then took the car which he had given her as a present away for scrap . |
7 | She 'd rather he continued seeing her as a thief than that . |
8 | Doc Threadneedle had turned her into a human perpetual motion machine , like one of those dipping birds her father had bought her as a child . |
9 | At Brighton last week Mr Kinnock had portrayed her as an anachronism as the Nineties dawned , ‘ out of step , out of touch , out of date ’ . |
10 | Since Wendy had taken to hovering over the bed , Rhoda had reclaimed her as a daughter and now spoke freely of the past . |
11 | The servants had taken pity on Alexandra , old Elsie especially who had nursed her as a baby and who now kept the linen cupboard , and helped in the kitchen ; and she had learned that her mother had married beneath her , far beneath , but that being over thirty and a cripple , she was , in a sense , lucky even to get James Abbott , if a man was what she wanted besides all she had already , castle and land and sheep . |
12 | ALTHOUGH SHE HATE POSING FOR PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS SHE NEVER MINDED WHEN BERNARD WANTED TO USE HER AS A MODEL . |