Example sentences of "[to-vb] she as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young man 's intentions had been honourable and he had asked his father to obtain her as a bride . |
| 2 | The trustees may refuse to accept her as a beneficiary or may require any benefits to be divided with other individuals . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We employ an elderly book-keeper who is due to retire soon and I am concerned about getting someone to replace her as the books that she is keeping appear quite complicated . |
| 5 | There was enough of it to identify her as the Seren … |
| 6 | Uncle Harry was going to cast her as the hitchhiker in Mondo Desire . |
| 7 | Atrimonides was grabbing wildly at her , desperately flailing his hands and feet , and Cheryl realized he was trying to use her as a reaction mass to slow his own fall . |
| 8 | ALTHOUGH SHE HATE POSING FOR PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS SHE NEVER MINDED WHEN BERNARD WANTED TO USE HER AS A MODEL . |
| 9 | She wondered if Ethel would relent and change her back , or whether she might be really wicked enough to leave her as a frog , for ever . |
| 10 | I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | He hated her so much that he refused even to see her as a person . |
| 13 | It would be incongruous to see her as an influence on later writers who may never have heard of her . |
| 14 | She was determined to allow nobody to treat her as a child in future — not Sam , not Adam , not Elinor , not Buzz , and certainly not Miranda . |
| 15 | Why he seemed so determined to treat her as a friend when all her instincts told her that he was in love with her . |
| 16 | It was better that way because then no one , even when put under the most severe torture , would be able to name her as the culprit . |
| 17 | Professors Gordon Donaldson and I. B. Cowan have both tried to assess her as a character of history rather than drama , going further than Lady Antonia in considering her political role . |
| 18 | The business of the historian is not to love or to hate Mary Stuart , to judge her as a saint or a criminal , but to ask about the success or failure of her rule . |
| 19 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 20 | However , a safer and a wiser idea is to take up what I began with : Phyllis Bottome telling how Pound , when they were both young , tried to turn her as a writer from an amateur into a professional . |
| 21 | The only way Masefield can make this credible is to present her as a kind of child-bride , a happy innocent ; necessary as this may be to both the theme and the plot of the book , it does not allow her to develop beyond the limits of a type-character . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | At times they find it more amusing to portray her as a disco-Princess . |
| 24 | ‘ If you are referring to Mrs. Channing , you 've given me no instructions to regard her as a client . ’ |
| 25 | I wished I had some small thing to show her as a reference : perhaps not a book , an article in a learned journal . |