Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She failed him as a great ‘ silver ’ power , as a naval power at Trafalgar , and by 1807 her domestic polities were so confused by court intrigue that she appeared scarcely a reliable political ally . |
| 2 | She regarded herself as a Catalan first and last . |
| 3 | She recognised him as a kindred spirit , with the same happy-go-lucky , questing attitude to life which she herself possessed . |
| 4 | She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley . |
| 5 | Everyone else seemed to be roused by the War , but she saw it as a giant emotional hoax . |
| 6 | I kept a set of clothes at my Mother 's house — she treated me as a contemporary , so allowed me to do as I wished — and on Friday afternoons , I 'd catch the bus from school to spend the week-end there . |
| 7 | She treated him as a malnourished curiosity , swooping down on him with tender cluckings , and seductive titbits — a crab claw , a lychee , a chocolate truffle — asking him to describe God , or Heaven , or sin , treating him as a confessional , trying to dress him up as a cardinal , showing him off to her friends . |
| 8 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |
| 9 | People will argue that she did it as a good deed , in helping her husband 's friend . |