Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , he berates her and describes the misery she might expect as a beggar . |
| 2 | She wondered what excuse she might use as a pretext for calling on Sykes . |
| 3 | Thus she could pose as a Stealer hybrid , could behave as one ; and afterwards could suck those implants back into herself , softening , shrinking , reabsorbing them . |
| 4 | This was brought home to her when the only holiday jobs she could get as a teenager were helping on market stalls and working as a chambermaid in a hotel . |
| 5 | Dorothea was there and the person she used to bring as a partner for Faith 's bridge games when I could not play . |
| 6 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 7 | She could suck it as easily as the sticks of liquorice she used to adore as a girl . |
| 8 | And he was certainly not the kind of man she would want as a father for her daughter ! |
| 9 | This meant that Mrs. Bernadette McAliskey ( nee Devlin ) could not take part though she had earlier indicated that she would stand as a candidate in Mid-Ulster . |
| 10 | It makes no sense at all to tell an attractive transsexual employed as a secretary , possessed of all the necessary documentation of her sex change and all the physical attributes of her new sex — breasts , female figure , and vagina ( albeit a constructed one ) — that she can pass as a woman , but can not be raped because she is a man . |