Example sentences of "[that] she [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Bhutto is spitting fury , not just over the matter of the provincial assemblies , but also because she says that she was given fewer ministries in the caretaker government ( just under a quarter ) than she deserves . |
| 2 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
| 3 | Indeed , his position as Town 's theatre critic meant that she was getting some evenings out free as well . |
| 4 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 5 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 6 | You do n't want to know that she was wearing odd socks and one of them was green , it 's |
| 7 | He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote . |
| 8 | As she gradually changed her beliefs , Cathy found that she was meeting different kinds of men . |
| 9 | She was more than a little astounded , however , that , as Naylor stood facing her in the hall of her home , she should suddenly feel breathless and find that she was extending that courtesy even further . |
| 10 | One woman , a party official 's wife , is said by the Anglican vicar to have eaten twenty-one croustades of morels in a sauce of cream and truffle , with a vapeur of Armagnac , in the belief that she was fostering international relations . |
| 11 | Lily had told her , she hoped tactfully , that she was asking six girls from the show to be her attendants . |
| 12 | She had often heard people say how Martha Gristy had been the beauty of Polruan , and she had taken pride in the fact that she was inheriting those looks . |
| 13 | The character of a woman may be attacked in ways other than an explicit recounting of her past sexual relationships or , indeed , that she was having sexual relationships . |