Example sentences of "[vb past] she [be] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He assumed she was the younger daughter of the couple who lived on the second floor , until she spoke . |
| 2 | Then , she dreamed she was the Great Crocodile in the Moon . |
| 3 | Before Eva had time to do a mental check list of any way that she or the students at the ICO might have offended , General Wiseman informed her that he felt she was the right person to take over leadership of the women 's social services . |
| 4 | When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me . |
| 5 | I thought she was the cleaning woman first of all . ’ |
| 6 | First , they proved she was the biological child of the Twiggs . |
| 7 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
| 8 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |