Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] her as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being . |
| 4 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 5 | Mrs Nowak had impressed her as a strong woman , a woman inclined to fantasy perhaps , but resilient and not inclined to despair . |
| 6 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 7 | When he had taken up with Jessica he had recognised her as a wild Ulster girl , and had respected her for it . |