Example sentences of "[prep] her as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought of her as the child , though she was married and a mother . |
| 2 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 3 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 4 | I count the years I had with her as the best of my life . |
| 5 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 6 | Stiff and cold , she stared bleakly before her as the events of yesterday rushed into her mind . |
| 7 | Then a small chill ran through her as the recalled the fortune-teller 's words : ‘ I see danger from a train ’ . |
| 8 | A wild , violent delight that had intolerable hunger as its other side spasmed through her as the deep , slow throb low down in her slender body became a pounding , yearning ache that must be soothed , or she thought she would die . |
| 9 | With the Rummidge A to Z open on the passenger seat beside her , she set off to find J. Pringle & Sons , somewhere on the other side of the city : the dark side of Rummidge , as foreign to her as the dark side of the moon . |
| 10 | But he would not let her , her stubborn sailor , he held on to her as the walls held on to the moving air within her house . |
| 11 | It was he who after a particularly violent disagreement , suggested that Joan should be invited to pay them another visit — though he referred to her as the lady Anne , as had been agreed . |
| 12 | Story-telling is considered a part of a woman 's magical repertoire — a device she can use to affect the listener , melting his heart , distracting him or binding him to her as the occasion demands . |
| 13 | She is the most powerful magician ever to wear the crown of Kislev , and her aloof majesty and inscrutable disposition has caused many to refer to her as the Ice Queen of Kislev . |
| 14 | Although the papers referred to her as the Peace Mother she had not been active in the Peace People . |
| 15 | As known to her as the door of the flat . |
| 16 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 17 | Her family had always referred to her as the ‘ egghead ’ . |
| 18 | For example , a failure to allow a woman employee to return to work after maternity leave is treated as a dismissal , with the termination date being the date notified by her as the date of return . |