Example sentences of "had [verb] her [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the age of seventeen , Margaret had regarded her body as a tradeable commodity ; she saw a fortnightly meeting between the sheets with an elderly bookmaker as an investment , a means to an end . |
| 2 | She had been a courtesan before Turakina had bought her contract as a gift for her husband . |
| 3 | And right from day one , from the day Emily had been born , Josey had offered her services as a child-minder . |
| 4 | But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control . |
| 5 | So bad , the woman had to abandon her role as a make-believe victim and return to the top . |
| 6 | She had experienced her mother as a distant figure who at times just grabbed her and moved her about , but she had not had the physical and emotional closeness that she craved and needed . |
| 7 | The daughter Nora had left her post as an English teacher in a German school before Easter . |
| 8 | She knew that she had lost her independence as a woman , which she had been so proud of . |