Example sentences of "[art] [noun] she have [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the most powerful is the father 's reaction to his daughter 's femininity and the part she has to play as ‘ Daddy 's little girl ’ . |
| 2 | Lovingly , as if repeating one of the poems she had learnt as a girl , and never forgotten , she crooned to herself the doctor 's words , ‘ Nothing to worry about , Mrs Mallory . |
| 3 | He was the Maurice Charlotte had always known then , the Maurice she had loved as a brother and trusted as a friend . |
| 4 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 5 | More important than all the pats on the back she 's had as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 6 | It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story . |
| 7 | In the past she has gone as a pillion passenger on husband Steve 's bike . |
| 8 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 9 | Like many divorcées , she now viewed the man she had married as a monster of depravity , as capable as Richard III of any dirty deed . |
| 10 | She shared the perplexity she had felt as a young officer when she first discovered that a certain number of votes were required to elect a General . |
| 11 | The couple she had met as the Corduroys , Ken and Louise , were holding plates and looking round for somewhere to sit . |
| 12 | It was no wonder she 'd looked as if she 'd aged , she thought guiltily , and no wonder she 'd looked miserable ; the poor woman did n't have too much to look happy about . |
| 13 | It was the home of a very wealthy man , a man she had recognised as wealthy the moment she had seen him . |
| 14 | A day or two before she was due to move she ran into a man she had known as a rather mysterious friend of Simon 's who used to turn up on leave now and again during the war . |
| 15 | AN ELDERLY spinster with ‘ a heart of gold ’ was battered to death in her home by a man she had minded as a boy , a court was told yesterday . |