Example sentences of "she [vb past] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beatrice was anxious not to follow what she regarded as the purposeless social round of the society wife and felt that the ‘ governing and guiding ’ work performed by women philanthropists was much less likely to ‘ unsex ’ women than academic work or the ‘ push and severity ’ demanded of a professional woman such as the hospital matron . |
| 2 | Amanda Bairstow 's principal boy was attractive , but , whatever the provincial accent she adopted as the fortune-seeking Dick was meant to be , it was nowhere near the Gloucester that the script ( and history ) specified . |
| 3 | A politician of intuition not of intellect , she served as the perfect antidote to the cerebral doctrines of the Keynesian planners of the 1945–79 period , against whose dominion she had so memorably rebelled . |
| 4 | ‘ Keep in touch , ’ she called as the huge door rattled to a close . |
| 5 | Tell My Horse was the result of one of these trips , written in 1936 as a study of voodoo which , like the ‘ hoodoo ’ of the Southern US , she saw as the African spiritual source underlying the fervour of black Christianity . |
| 6 | I am so jealous and protective of her , ’ but , close as she was to Louise , she could n't bring herself to admit what she saw as the black depths of her failure with her daughter . |
| 7 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
| 8 | ‘ Letty , ’ she said as the young girl bobbed in the doorway , ‘ ask Mrs Beynon to come in please . ’ |
| 9 | Her hand shook as she lifted the glass to her lips , and , unused to spirits , she coughed as the fiery liquor burnt its way down her throat . |
| 10 | She crouched as the great flock screamed past her , wings humming ; some of them tangled in the trees , a few panicked as they shattered themselves against the stone of the fortress , or flew frantically in the confined space of the room ; but most of them circled above her head , then streamed away to the south , lost against the fading luminescence of the sky . |