Example sentences of "she [vb past] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She described it as a nightmare . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley . |
| 5 | But with a new-found strength she swung it as a feather , at the luckless Rubberneck . |
| 6 | Everyone else seemed to be roused by the War , but she saw it as a giant emotional hoax . |
| 7 | She saw it as an opportunity to take control of her life and set about tackling the crisis with positive thinking . |
| 8 | She meant it as a compliment but it made me sound like her GP . |
| 9 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |
| 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 | People will argue that she did it as a good deed , in helping her husband 's friend . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yeah she had it as a present on |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She wrote it as a series of articles and sent the first three to Richard Crossman , then editor of the New Statesman . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |