Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] as " 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 | Fergus felt a surge of real anger now , because how dare she treat him as an inferior , how dare she speak to him as if he was no more than one of her serfs , a possession , a pawn , a thing . |
| 3 | Relieved of her professional role , she manifested herself as an attractive well-dressed young woman answering to the name of Suzanne . |
| 4 | Her senses are , of course , less acute than mine : if she feels even the slightest admonitory prickle on her nape , she misinterprets it as a spattering of raindrops , instead of a stranger 's gaze . |
| 5 | In the audience was Princess Margherita of Savoy ( later Queen of Italy ) , and she appointed him as her singing teacher . |
| 6 | How could she describe herself as a revolutionary , a serious person , if she were a thief ? |
| 7 | She regarded them as " mentors " who taught her a great deal about management , and international leadership . |
| 8 | On Oct. 9 , shortly after appearing before a special tribunal [ see below ] , she accused him of " naked aggression " against the judiciary , and added that she regarded him as her main opponent . |
| 9 | She regarded it as an unofficial library , as remote and as Municipal as the library itself And then , one Saturday morning , she went into it with Walter Ash , to look at ( not to buy ) the text of Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon , which was being currently performed at the local rep . |
| 10 | She regarded herself as ‘ a woman , unlettered , feeble and frail ’ yet comes across with sanity , strength and tenderness . |
| 11 | She regarded herself as a Catalan first and last . |
| 12 | well no she has it as a toy room do n't she ? |
| 13 | When she first saw his picture she described him as ‘ an extremely unattractive man with very little , if any , sex appeal ’ . |
| 14 | She made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 15 | He has been determined to destroy her since she described him as ‘ something — sub-human — something not quite to the stage of humanity yet ! ’ |
| 16 | She never called her father ‘ Daddy ’ but Calvin when talking about him , she feared him for she described him as if he was some towering evil giant . |
| 17 | In January 1936 he lectured in Dublin and when in June of the same year he agreed to read poetry at Sylvia Beach 's bookshop in Paris ( he was in that city for a four-day visit ) she described it as an " historic event " although one member of the audience on that occasion remembered how he did not once glance at his listeners , but seemed " fiercely defensive " and turned the pages with a " look very near distaste " : his profile was " like a bird of prey of some sort " . |
| 18 | She described it as a nightmare . |
| 19 | She describes it as a ‘ very Scottish book about his childhood , up to his time in Cambridge , including disquisitions on such favourite subjects as film and football ’ . |
| 20 | Elizabeth Jane Lloyd paints flowers — she describes herself as ‘ an ordinary oil painter ’ — and has often shown at Kew Gardens . |
| 21 | She describes herself as an ‘ old-fashioned ’ teacher in referring to what might be considered rather traditional teaching methods . |
| 22 | She recognised him as a kindred spirit , with the same happy-go-lucky , questing attitude to life which she herself possessed . |
| 23 | Despite her antagonism , she recognised him as an awesome adversary . |
| 24 | She recognised them as some of the soldiers immediately . |
| 25 | She narrowed her eyes to catch the first mosquito smudge of distant cormorants — give them till daylight , she told herself as if you can command their flight ! |
| 26 | She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley . |
| 27 | Sometimes people addressed letters mistakenly to Lady Muriel Selvedge , and on these occasions she imagined herself as the daughter of an earl , a marquess , or even a duke , comfortably unmarried . |
| 28 | She introduces herself as a representative of the government . |
| 29 | She characterizes it as a ‘ micropolitical structure ’ in itself , which ‘ underlies and supports the macropolitical structure ’ ; and she alleges that it lies at a ‘ crucial point ’ ( 1977 : 179 , 191 ) between open , and concealed , political control and resistance . |
| 30 | She sees herself as a driving force to get new ideas for new courses onto the University books particularly interdisciplinary courses and others which , she says , have got glamourous , ‘ rather sexy ’ images . |