Example sentences of "she [vb past] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put down her long life to what she regarded as healthy eating — her breakfast on her last birthday was brandy , bacon and eggs — and keeping the Ten Commandments . |
| 2 | Miss Wharton , on her first visit to St Matthew 's , nine years previously , had decided that it was expedient to admire it since it was her parish church and offered what she described as Catholic privileges . |
| 3 | It seems certain that to Modigliani she acted as stimulant , irritant and catalyst for his work . |
| 4 | A searching , frantic hand savagely grasped Maggie 's hip , and she yelped as sharp nails pierced her skin . |
| 5 | She worked as Assistant Curator to Jill Morgan at Rochdale Art Gallery 1988–1990 and staged major shows by Donald Rodney , Critical and Claudette Johnson , Pushing Back the Boundaries . |
| 6 | More recently , she worked as special adviser to Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson and his successor John Major , moving with Mr Major to Number 10 when he became prime minister . |
| 7 | Between 1940 and 1945 she worked as honorary secretary to the famine relief committee ( chaired by G. K. A. Bell , bishop of Chichester , q.v. ) which tried , via the Red Cross , to send food , vitamins , and medical aid to children in German-occupied Europe , against the wishes of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare . |
| 8 | Between 1986–88 she worked as senior research officer at the UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development while , immediately before joining the TEC , she was the Design Council 's economic and business research manager . |
| 9 | There was no competition here , no assumed superiority on the part of another to make her uneasy or defensive , only what she saw as shared experience , delightful in retrospect . |
| 10 | Midge protested at what she saw as bureaucratic interference in what should have been a private grief . |