Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rune had given her a sharp glance as she replied , but then appeared to accept her question as an affirmative , as he took her firmly by the arm to lead her into his chosen restaurant . |
| 2 | In the aftermath of Suez , Britain had no other option but to try to repair the damage done to her trans-Atlantic anchor cables and to accept her position as an offshore island of the United States . |
| 3 | Finding that the recently established Queen Victoria 's Jubilee Institute of Nursing concentrated on urban areas , she persuaded its council to accept her association as its rural district branch . |
| 4 | ACTRESS Britt Ekland is to try her luck as a novelist following the failure of her eight-year marriage to toy boy ‘ Slim ’ Jim McDonnell . |
| 5 | It described her marriage as the ‘ most famous and most disgraced ’ in the world . |
| 6 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 7 | Her activities were at first regarded with suspicion by headmistresses of local schools , so , to placate those who did not outright forbid their pupils to attend , she described her lessons as rhythmic exercises to music . |
| 8 | His wife , Josephine , 82 , described her granddaughter as ‘ a wonderful , bubbly girl full of vigour . ’ |
| 9 | She described her protest as a " fast to the death " , but abandoned her hunger strike on May 25 after an appeal to desist by Cardinal Jaime Sin , the Archbishop of Manila . |
| 10 | Many commentators interpreted Aquino 's action as an attempt to revive her reputation as a populist and to distance herself from the charges of nepotism , corruption and incompetence which had been increasingly directed against her government by critics from both the right and the left . |
| 11 | Five years later she was to be found lecturing on her expedition to the Gabon , she had climbed Mount Cameroon , and her Travels in West Africa was published to consolidate her reputation as a ‘ fish and fetish ’ expert . |
| 12 | has resigned her position as Editor 's Assistant ( Thank you for all your hard work ) and we are delighted that is helping temporarily . |
| 13 | Emily Lloyd is charmless as the daughter of Peter Falk 's ageing gangster , though Dianne Wiest has her moments as a fluffy moll with claws of steel . |
| 14 | Caterina now faced the weeping Virgin determinedly and moved her lips as if praying ; she quailed when she realised that she would have to act the go-between again and seek him out alone once more . |
| 15 | Although the renewal appeared to secure her position as tutor-organiser into the mid-thirties , Miss Green 's personal relationships with the District and Pateman became formal rather than enthusiastic after 1931 , but her commitment to her students continued undiminished . |
| 16 | Tina regarded her mother as a kind of insurance policy and her house as a bolthole . |
| 17 | Juliet had given her a few pointers , but indream Susan found her experience as Vanessa Vail somehow more confidence-building . |
| 18 | The waitress counts her tip as if reasonably expecting a million dollars for all the aggravation caused . |
| 19 | For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company . |
| 20 | Elizabeth never married but used her spinsterhood as a diplomatic bate — Robert Dudley , the Earl of Leicester , was very close and , after his death , his stepson , the Earl of Essex , became close , but he was executed for treason when it was learned that he had entered into a conspiracy . |
| 21 | Among the revelations will be of the time Cecil Parkinson swore at her in a Cabinet meeting , Kenneth Clarke telling how she used her femininity as a weapon in meetings , and Norman Tebbit and Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten talking about the horrors concealed in that famous handbag . |
| 22 | She used her religion as a way of not ever speaking for herself . |
| 23 | Instead he used her remark as the perfect occasion for a quarrel . |
| 24 | ‘ The problem of women is all that is marvellous and troubling in the world ’ sighed Andre Breton in the second Surrealist manifesto of 1929 ; and just as the predominantly male membership saw woman as their muse , the fueller of their fantasies and liberators of their imaginations , so they used her body as a vessel and vehicle for their wildest and often dark plumbings of the subconscious . |
| 25 | She says they used her orchard as a toilet , and their property was invaded night and day . |
| 26 | Most reports of this incident underlined Mrs White 's loss , or used her son as a metaphor for the ‘ death of hope ’ in a precinct riddled with drugs . |
| 27 | Police say they 'll treat her remarks as a formal complaint . |
| 28 | Police say they 'll treat her remarks as a formal complaint . |
| 29 | They live together and as far as he is concerned , he will treat her daughter as his own . |
| 30 | Congratulations are extended to Joan Gatfield on completing her training as a Trainee-Trainer , we wish her every success for the future . |