Example sentences of "she describe [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she first saw his picture she described him as ‘ an extremely unattractive man with very little , if any , sex appeal ’ . |
| 2 | She made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 3 | He has been determined to destroy her since she described him as ‘ something — sub-human — something not quite to the stage of humanity yet ! ’ |
| 4 | She never called her father ‘ Daddy ’ but Calvin when talking about him , she feared him for she described him as if he was some towering evil giant . |
| 5 | In January 1936 he lectured in Dublin and when in June of the same year he agreed to read poetry at Sylvia Beach 's bookshop in Paris ( he was in that city for a four-day visit ) she described it as an " historic event " although one member of the audience on that occasion remembered how he did not once glance at his listeners , but seemed " fiercely defensive " and turned the pages with a " look very near distaste " : his profile was " like a bird of prey of some sort " . |
| 6 | She described it as a nightmare . |
| 7 | She describes it as a ‘ very Scottish book about his childhood , up to his time in Cambridge , including disquisitions on such favourite subjects as film and football ’ . |