Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] she as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held her face between his two hands and his glance penetrated her as if to see into her soul as he asked , ‘ Are you seeing any of those actors ? |
| 2 | But if not , how has her work in algal taxono or her dives into the Galapagos Rift prepared her as an expert on the moving business ? |
| 3 | He touched her breasts , briefly , as if her nakedness confirmed her as the victim . |
| 4 | Did n't it hurt his arm to hold her like this ? she wondered distractedly , but then another tremulous whimper escaped her as the hand holding her against him moved to cover her breast . |
| 5 | The formalist critic dismisses her as a serious contender for the mantle of ‘ modern artist ’ due to a perceived lack of innovation and refusal of the essentialist mandate of formalism . |
| 6 | Less than one third of respondents who had a mother living included her as a person to whom they felt very close , and hardly any had what could be described as a ‘ true ’ close relationship with their mother ( using criteria developed from the Brown and Harris study ) . |
| 7 | Equity treats her as if she was the unmarried owner of it ; it lets her dispose of it as she pleases in her lifetime , it lets her leave it by will , it even lets her make contracts which can be enforced against it , and against it only . |
| 8 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 9 | Dombey employs her as a housekeeper during his marriage to Edith ; after his ruin she returns to Brighton and child-quelling . |
| 10 | Over the years it had become apparent that Constance considered Brian a person of little consequence and that , this being the case , she would not have minded if he had hired the Albert Hall to denounce her as a barbarian and certainly cared nothing for his kitchen sulks and drawing-room sarcasm . |
| 11 | The words in fact are intended to reflect her night-time , miserable feelings but they only reflect Masefield 's failure to render her as a human being : |
| 12 | The outskirts of her home town excited her as a magical cavern will a child . |
| 13 | His entry on Liselotte 's file portrays her as ‘ a lively child but mentally backward ’ . |
| 14 | The exclamation escaped her as a startled squeak . |
| 15 | Of course I called her Mum , but it took me quite a little while to accept her as my mother . |
| 16 | When she was first looking for rooms to rent , she had to pretend to be Yoruba rather than Ibo in order to persuade a Nigerian landlord to accept her as a tenant . |
| 17 | ILONA lives in Munich with her husband because US Immigration regards her as an undesirable . |
| 18 | Her friend greeted her as if she had never been away , so the guilt evaporated and she began to talk about Nicky . |
| 19 | And she would spear a piece of chicken and carry it high in the air towards that great black hole of a mouth and , still talking about her therapy , her plans for the future , his inability to understand her as a woman , his crude , male-orientated sexuality , she would munch , munch , munch … |
| 20 | The young man 's intentions had been honourable and he had asked his father to obtain her as a bride . |
| 21 | Jeanne Rynhart , who immortalised the Dublin heroine in a sculpture depicting her as a 17th Century prostitute , said Molly would always live in the city 's folk memory . |
| 22 | None the less , the supporters of the Duke of Northumberland lost no opportunity to represent her as a staunch papist , and attempted to make use of anti-papal fears to win support for their rival candidate for the throne , Jane Grey . |
| 23 | A copy received by the Daily Mirror describes her as ‘ a crashing snob ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 25 | This may make her feel that society regards her as a second-class widow , and you may need to help those who come into contact with her to understand how important it is going to be for her future adjustment for them to treat her just as they would any other bereaved person . |
| 26 | If Margaret Thatcher stands down before the next election , as most voters appear to believe she should , Michael Heseltine is the popular choice to succeed her as Conservative leader , according to the opinion polls . |
| 27 | She had few female friends , for most of her sex saw her as a threat and a shrewish one at that . |
| 28 | He ran a tremulous fingertip over her lips in a further gesture to silence her as if he could n't bear the pain of hearing the words spoken . |
| 29 | Alice Perrers 's intimacy with the king began in the 1360s , and she received lavish gifts of jewellery and clothes , together with enough property to establish her as a substantial landowner in her own right . |
| 30 | The streets of the city welcomed her as an old friend as she made her way unerringly towards the brilliantly lit entrance of Tivoli . |