Example sentences of "she [modal v] [adv] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 2 | But , he favoured her with what she could only perceive as a reassuring smile when , ‘ I 'm on my way to Mariánské Láznë myself , ’ he commented easily , ‘ so that 's one problem you can forget . ’ |
| 3 | If she were interested in such a campaign , she could perhaps use as the model for it our own dear Speaker , whose radiant health and youthfulness make him the perfect epitome of a diet based on vegetarianism . |
| 4 | Sonia Gandhi , the widow of the assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi , confirmed on Oct. 12 that she would not stand as a candidate in a by-election scheduled for Nov. 16 in her late husband 's Amethi constituency in the state of Uttar Pradesh . |
| 5 | ‘ I just said that I was having a drink with her to ask her what she would really like as a wedding present from the firm , because men are no good at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 6 | She was embarking on what she would always regard as the pleasantest years of her life . |