Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] she was [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not clear whether she was yet the French officer 's mistress . |
| 2 | At least , he thought , he supposed he must be grateful that she was not a complete agoraphobic like her mother . |
| 3 | It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them . |
| 4 | I doubt if my mother really wanted to have a child in the heat of India and was surely delighted that she was merely the victim of indigestion . |
| 5 | Charity looked serious but she was obviously a master at the game and he must not show he 'd been jolted . |
| 6 | It was remarkably easy because she was n't the sort of woman to be star-struck so easily and quickly . |
| 7 | Er she 'd sat up er obviously when we moved into the bedroom and from there I 'm not exactly sure what she was doing , in as much as she was n't a threat so therefore perhaps I I did n't pay that much attention to what she was doing . |
| 8 | Bernice felt guiltily glad that she was not the target of that gaze . |
| 9 | In fact , his parents had both been excruciatingly polite to her , but that had only made it even more obvious that she was n't the kind of wife they wanted for their clever , ambitious son . |
| 10 | You want snuggling , I got snuggling , she fumed , knowing for sure that she was n't the clinging type but , with some devil on her back , this way seeming to be the only way she could cope with being ‘ engaged ’ . |
| 11 | Posh Porky knew exactly when and where she was born and never stopped reminding us all that she was nearly a year younger than anyone else in the class . |
| 12 | Geoffrey , spying Stella mooning about the prop room , imagined she was upset because she was only an understudy . |
| 13 | She 'd already been married and divorced and she was quite a bit older than him and I , I was n't very happy about it to start , but they seem to have settled down alright |