Example sentences of "her as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 That man was Ted Brocklebank , who employed her as a reporter for the nightly news programme North Tonight , and continues to be her mentor today .
2 I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present .
3 He snatched his furniture from the house and dumped it on a tip , then took the car which he had given her as a present away for scrap .
4 On hearing of her death , Prime Minister Cavaco Silva described her as a person ‘ of exceptional quality who contributed with vigour and impartiality to the appreciation of culture in Portugal and the presentation of Portuguese culture abroad . ’
5 For her subjects it will undoubtedly confirm our respect and affection for her as a person ; but , more importantly , by its sequential emphasis , it reasserts the awesome spiritual power with which she is invested .
6 He saw her as a person injured by life , as he was injured .
7 We can see him or her as a person rather than as a stereotype .
8 Less than one third of respondents who had a mother living included her as a person to whom they felt very close , and hardly any had what could be described as a ‘ true ’ close relationship with their mother ( using criteria developed from the Brown and Harris study ) .
9 ‘ It really shattered her as a person and caused a lot of problems in her life .
10 He hated her so much that he refused even to see her as a person .
11 It was as if he was very concerned with her as a person .
12 Instead , Jo maintains close ties with three schoolfriends and a handful of others who willingly accept her as a person rather than a TV personality .
13 His opinion of her work , like his opinion of her as a person , really should n't matter to her in the slightest .
14 Briefly , his interest was in her as a person with opinions and particular professional attitudes of her own , rather than as a female body he wanted to possess , and Maria responded with relief .
15 And how dared he try to bolster up his male ego at her expense when he had made it so plain he did n't care a damn for her as a person ?
16 Never , by look or gesture or word , had he given her the slightest justification for thinking that he might be interested in her as a person .
17 This is less practicable for the smaller firm , but all firms should incorporate in their selection procedures a judgment on whether an applicant 's educational background appears to fit him or her as a candidate for the examinations .
18 But Susan Einzig had a more significant , also more complex , place in his life : though to all appearances she and Minton were a couple , he used her as a decoy to attract into their orbit , through her role as the attractive elder woman , keen on dancing and having a good time , the lusty heterosexual students whose company Minton needed and whom , when rebuffed by Susan , he scooped up on the rebound , with mocking asides about the inadequacy of women .
19 The business of the historian is not to love or to hate Mary Stuart , to judge her as a saint or a criminal , but to ask about the success or failure of her rule .
20 ‘ It 's extraordinary , most people have dismissed her as a hype-merchant who 's just good at working the system , but then she delivers something like this .
21 She thought she might avoid the place for a few days herself , just in case the boy had any ideas of adopting her as a protector .
22 I wished I had some small thing to show her as a reference : perhaps not a book , an article in a learned journal .
23 He turned her to face him , lifted her lace veil , and the symbolic act sent a convulsive shudder of desire through her as a thought shot like fire into her mind .
24 Mr Hunter had n't struck her as a man who would easily admit he was wrong .
25 He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection .
26 The horror of the near nervous breakdown she suffered soon after launching her recording career , as she struggled to combine acting with singing , was taken by her as a warning to calm down .
27 At times they find it more amusing to portray her as a disco-Princess .
28 ‘ It 'll be Monday all too soon , ’ Sara said , with the brotherly grimness that Thomas had learned to read in her as a style of intimacy .
29 If , on the other hand you are married to a man who , on the surface at least , appears to be more attentive to his mother 's needs than to yours , try not to become upset and regard her as a threat or a rival , and avoid jumping to the conclusion that your marriage is a failure and that you are unloved .
30 She had few female friends , for most of her sex saw her as a threat and a shrewish one at that .
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