Example sentences of "she [verb] it as [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 well no she has it as a toy room do n't she ?
3 She described it as a nightmare .
4 For my character that 's been her hook on life , she sees it as a way of competing with women who are brighter or have got more of a start in life .
5 So if a girl does not feel able to go and ask for the Pill , or if she is reluctant to use it because she sees it as a health risk , the alternative may be to use nothing .
6 If her looks are appreciated , she takes it as a bonus , knowing that the passing of time makes such compliments precious .
7 But with a new-found strength she swung it as a feather , at the luckless Rubberneck .
8 She saw it as an opportunity to take control of her life and set about tackling the crisis with positive thinking .
9 She meant it as a compliment but it made me sound like her GP .
10 She bought it as a gift on my last trip to the UK .
11 I think she bought it as an investment and wants to sell .
12 It was the widow 's custom to leave a jug of milk for them each night after milking , she gave it as a gift in thanks , she said , for their support of an unfortunate woman on her own .
13 Yeah she had it as a present on
14 She accepted it as a convenience , like an improved system of telephones ; she did not dedicate herself to it as the expression of a moral idea of comradeship and equality , the avowal of which could leave nothing the same .
15 She wrote it as a series of articles and sent the first three to Richard Crossman , then editor of the New Statesman .
16 He could not guarantee he would be able to deliver it on the day and she billed it as a surprise film so she could show a reserve if it failed to arrive .
17 It was n't much read until they rediscovered it — Virginia Woolf knew it , she adduced it as an image of the essential androgyny of the creative mind — but the new feminists see Melusina in her bath as a symbol of self-sufficient female sexuality needing no poor males .
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