Example sentences of "was she the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was she the older , the larger and clumsier , who listened to him over supper . |
| 2 | Was she the author of the Casket Letters , those letters which totally implicated her in the murder , or were they forgeries ? |
| 3 | The secretary of each level of the party had quasi-absolute power over the members below him , and Elena had a double advantage : not only was she the Party secretary able to veto or grant small privileges for her colleagues , her husband was much of the time the Second Secretary in the Party at large , controlling the day-to-day business of the Romanian Communists under Dej 's supervision . |
| 4 | If anyone could have written it , why was she the only one to have done so ? |
| 5 | Was she the bait to lure him into a trap ? |
| 6 | He was a tawny lion poised for the kill — and was she the prey ? |
| 7 | Was she the woman we met on the road last night ? ’ |
| 8 | Was she the third person , whose presence he had always sensed ? |
| 9 | ‘ You mean , was she the sort of girl that other girls could be friends with ? |
| 10 | Was she the only one in this part of the world who only spoke one language ? |
| 11 | Was she the only person in the world who felt that love was too precious a commodity to cheapen by offering it as a stake in a game where the prize was emotional titillation ? |
| 12 | Not only was she the first female to break through the glass ceiling in Engineering , but to become a star throughout the company because she did the job with such panache ? |
| 13 | Erm h was she the same age as he was or y or younger or How old was your mother ? |
| 14 | Was she the one that was killed ? |