Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She failed him as a great ‘ silver ’ power , as a naval power at Trafalgar , and by 1807 her domestic polities were so confused by court intrigue that she appeared scarcely a reliable political ally . |
| 2 | She regarded it as an unofficial library , as remote and as Municipal as the library itself And then , one Saturday morning , she went into it with Walter Ash , to look at ( not to buy ) the text of Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon , which was being currently performed at the local rep . |
| 3 | She made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 4 | She described it as a nightmare . |
| 5 | In January 1936 he lectured in Dublin and when in June of the same year he agreed to read poetry at Sylvia Beach 's bookshop in Paris ( he was in that city for a four-day visit ) she described it as an " historic event " although one member of the audience on that occasion remembered how he did not once glance at his listeners , but seemed " fiercely defensive " and turned the pages with a " look very near distaste " : his profile was " like a bird of prey of some sort " . |
| 6 | She recognised him as a kindred spirit , with the same happy-go-lucky , questing attitude to life which she herself possessed . |
| 7 | Despite her antagonism , she recognised him as an awesome adversary . |
| 8 | She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley . |
| 9 | But with a new-found strength she swung it as a feather , at the luckless Rubberneck . |
| 10 | She always had half an eye for him ; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger . |
| 11 | She employed her as a cleaner at her house in Elm Park Lane , Chelsea . |
| 12 | She saw him as a reflection of herself , devious and cunning , her partner in many a conspiracy ; the most successful of which had been the manipulation of that slut of a girl in Tyler Blacklock 's lodging house . |
| 13 | It was easier , for example , to face the fact of Uncle Philip if she saw him as a character in a film , possibly played by Orson Welles . |
| 14 | I suppose she saw him as an escape . ’ |
| 15 | Her mind was open as long as the man had great quality ; she saw him as an explorer possibly , or an English statesman . |
| 16 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 17 | Everyone else seemed to be roused by the War , but she saw it as a giant emotional hoax . |
| 18 | She saw it as an opportunity to take control of her life and set about tackling the crisis with positive thinking . |
| 19 | She meant it as a compliment but it made me sound like her GP . |
| 20 | I kept a set of clothes at my Mother 's house — she treated me as a contemporary , so allowed me to do as I wished — and on Friday afternoons , I 'd catch the bus from school to spend the week-end there . |
| 21 | She treated him as a malnourished curiosity , swooping down on him with tender cluckings , and seductive titbits — a crab claw , a lychee , a chocolate truffle — asking him to describe God , or Heaven , or sin , treating him as a confessional , trying to dress him up as a cardinal , showing him off to her friends . |
| 22 | He loved her humour and the fact that she treated him as an equal , although their business was always conducted on the most formal lines . |
| 23 | Barbara was wonderful : unlike some people who had known him as a child , she treated him as an adult . |
| 24 | I think it 's eighty six , and er she remembered me as a , as a , as a little boy when Jackie used to wash his bags down here . |
| 25 | She remembered him as a very private person . |
| 26 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |
| 27 | She visualised him as a dolphin , rising up out of the waves , the moisture on his sleek , dark skin as bright as stars . |
| 28 | She bought it as a gift on my last trip to the UK . |
| 29 | I think she bought it as an investment and wants to sell . |
| 30 | The princess kissed the frog and he did n't turn into a handsome prince but that was all right because she liked him as a frog . |