Example sentences of "she [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog . |
| 4 | A BALLET lover yesterday lost her £200 damages claim over what she rated as a bad performance by superstar Rudolph Nureyev . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | First she posed as a Roman centurion and did a bit of torture . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She stopped as a sudden thought struck her and she looked up , removing her glasses . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Looking for Ianthe and Penelope , Sophia saw that they were deep in conversation , which she welcomed as a good sign . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She smiled as a communal murmur rippled towards her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She appeared as a Victorian doll , curiously animated . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In 1884 she enrolled as a special student at Finsbury Technical College under the tutelage of William Edmund Ayrton [ q.v. ] , professor of applied physics and one of the pioneers of higher technical education . |
| 22 | Suddenly unease rose inside her and she faltered as a sudden thought struck her . |
| 23 | She was defeated when she stood as a National Labour candidate in 1931 . |
| 24 | Joan Reid has been a student at Malvern Hills college since she retired as a civil servant on health grounds — now she 's learning new skills in the upholstery class . |