Example sentences of "she was [verb] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad 's was a carver and Mum 's had shortened legs because , being only 4 feet 10 inches tall , the lower chair was a great help when she was nursing us as babies . |
| 2 | Towards the end of the thirteen-year marriage she was treating me as if I was someone the cat had brought home . |
| 3 | She was teasing him as if he were one of the little ones but he did n't mind because she was looking happy again . |
| 4 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 5 | She was carrying him as a baby along a valley devoid of vegetation and with high hills on each side . |