Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] as a " 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 made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 3 | She described it as a nightmare . |
| 4 | She recognised him as a kindred spirit , with the same happy-go-lucky , questing attitude to life which she herself possessed . |
| 5 | She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley . |
| 6 | But with a new-found strength she swung it as a feather , at the luckless Rubberneck . |
| 7 | She always had half an eye for him ; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger . |
| 8 | She employed her as a cleaner at her house in Elm Park Lane , Chelsea . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Everyone else seemed to be roused by the War , but she saw it as a giant emotional hoax . |
| 12 | She meant it as a compliment but it made me sound like her GP . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She remembered him as a very private person . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She visualised him as a dolphin , rising up out of the waves , the moisture on his sleek , dark skin as bright as stars . |
| 19 | She bought it as a gift on my last trip to the UK . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | People will argue that she did it as a good deed , in helping her husband 's friend . |
| 22 | It was the widow 's custom to leave a jug of milk for them each night after milking , she gave it as a gift in thanks , she said , for their support of an unfortunate woman on her own . |
| 23 | Yeah she had it as a present on |
| 24 | She struck me as a rather isolated figure , psychologically as well as physically , sitting at that distant table . |
| 25 | I was too scared to speak to her because she was a bit on the large side and had a pair of glasses sitting on the tip of her nose and she struck me as a very bossy , short tempered teacher . |
| 26 | She accepted it as a convenience , like an improved system of telephones ; she did not dedicate herself to it as the expression of a moral idea of comradeship and equality , the avowal of which could leave nothing the same . |
| 27 | She wrote it as a series of articles and sent the first three to Richard Crossman , then editor of the New Statesman . |
| 28 | He could not guarantee he would be able to deliver it on the day and she billed it as a surprise film so she could show a reserve if it failed to arrive . |