Example sentences of "she [verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spain did not become a great mercantile nation because she failed as a naval power to retain political control of her great empire , and as a producer to supply cheap goods . |
| 2 | She plays as a middle hitter . |
| 3 | I am afraid that her reply was not as sympathetic as the contribution that she made as a Back Bencher when talking about Florence Smith . |
| 4 | She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog . |
| 5 | A BALLET lover yesterday lost her £200 damages claim over what she rated as a bad performance by superstar Rudolph Nureyev . |
| 6 | But her cause was badly damaged in 1985 , the day before she was to sit next to the Prince of Wales at a dinner in Florida , when it was revealed that she posed as a nude model in magazines and appeared in pornographic films in the late 1960s . |
| 7 | First she posed as a Roman centurion and did a bit of torture . |
| 8 | Mrs Adams said her four sons — Richard , nine , Stuart , five , Mark , two , and Thomas , 11 months — were still coming to terms with the loss of their father , a former Royal Air Force engineer whom she described as a happy , family man . |
| 9 | She stopped as a sudden thought struck her and she looked up , removing her glasses . |
| 10 | Later she trained as a Jungian analyst and , now widowed , she is working full-time in this field , but finds time to enjoy the company of grandchildren and greatnephews and nieces . |
| 11 | ‘ She starts as a naive young girl and ends as a grown woman , and quite a strong one too , ’ Rodgers adds proudly . |
| 12 | Margaret is delighted to be making this return trip on what she describes as a warm and friendly course . |
| 13 | At this point she showed enormous courage by re-assessing her life , and has now struggled through to what she describes as a liberating philosophy of autonomy and self-determination . |
| 14 | Lady Miriam said the princess will unveil a special plaque to mark the opening of the new hospice , which she describes as a vital addition to health care facilities in the area . |
| 15 | There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life . |
| 16 | Looking for Ianthe and Penelope , Sophia saw that they were deep in conversation , which she welcomed as a good sign . |
| 17 | Deeply concerned at what she sees as a naive response to changes in the Warsaw Pact countries which could yet be reversed , Mrs Thatcher will seek a clear assurance from Mr Bush that any defence cuts will not erode the US military commmitment to Western Europe . |
| 18 | Sometimes she appears as a strange hybrid of the two : a woman 's face with long cow 's ears . |
| 19 | On the cover of her autobiography , ‘ Putting Myself in the Picture ’ , she appears as a middle-aged schoolgirl , a sad red ribbon dragging back her hair , an ugly navy jumper over a regulation white blouse . |
| 20 | ‘ Luk at thon in a shellsuit , ’ she called as a middle aged shopper hurried by , ‘ I thought you had to be a glue sniffer to wear a shellsuit . ’ |
| 21 | In the magazine , the influential journalist and author Gail Sheehy writes : ‘ Hillary boils over at what she perceives as a double standard — that the press has shied away from investigating long-standing rumours about George Bush . ’ |
| 22 | She shivered as a stray gust of wind whistled around the corner of a side-street , averting her eyes from the shadows cast by the encroaching house frontages . |
| 23 | Kahlo 's adoption of Tehuana dress , while being an attractive disguise of what she saw as a less than perfect body , asserted both a feminist and an anti-colonialist position . |
| 24 | She also felt that age 6 was too early to make what she saw as a drastic decision — once out of mainstream education she felt he would be unlikely to get back . |
| 25 | She felt as a nervous duellist must feel when his challenger fails the appointment — angry , braver in the aftermath than in the apprehension , her stomach slightly queasy with unassimilated dread . |
| 26 | She smiled as a communal murmur rippled towards her . |
| 27 | Immediate care was then needed for Mrs J. When the social worker first interviewed Mrs J. she presented as a tall active upright person , totally deaf , who railed about her dead daughter-in-law , to the great distress of the son . |
| 28 | PAMELA COUNTESS OF ONSLOW , who has died aged 76 , became a celebrity in 1973 when she emerged as a key figure in the ‘ Littlejohn Affair ’ — one of the more curious spy stories of recent years . |
| 29 | She appeared as a Victorian doll , curiously animated . |
| 30 | As she prepares for her gold medal exam for speech and drama next month through the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , she confesses she has cast aside ambitions she had as a ten- year-old to be an actress . |