Example sentences of "[vb past] she be [art] [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 | You probably realised she 's a severe case of portal cirrhosis , with ascites and jaundice . |
| 3 | She discovered she was a split second too late in making a hurried scramble to get off the bed , because , in the next instant , Naylor was there with her , pinning her down with his body . |
| 4 | Then , she dreamed she was the Great Crocodile in the Moon . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dot felt she was an unwanted item of luggage being sent away . |
| 7 | My Mrs Hewitt from the Lake District was so nice and I felt she was an old friend , but we wanted to talk about our Christmas shopping , not books . |
| 8 | And she kissed me , and called me her dear Blanche , and said I knew she was a good girl , and very strong , and not foolish . |
| 9 | The sergeant knew she was a tough woman and had few weaknesses . |
| 10 | He obviously thought she was a man-hungry piranha , and really who could blame him ? |
| 11 | Mother called her Aunt Mary , and thought she was a grand woman , She had children of her own , you see , and would try and persuade Aunt Bessie to be a little less strict with Mother . |
| 12 | I thought she was a vexing girl , and judged that Byron thought the same ; but he was a lot more patient with her than he had been with Polidori . |
| 13 | The fact that he obviously thought she was a good nurse pleased her and gave her confidence , while the fact that Belinda had not betrayed his secret and gossiped about his wife and her illness earned his gratitude and respect , so that now they were allies and she knew she would be able to go to him if ever she had a problem at the hospital . |
| 14 | The locals thought she was a stuck-up bitch from Belfast , which she played up to the hilt , and the other guests — foreigners , mostly Dutch and Germans by their collar sizes — were taken by her vivacity , and the calm indulgence of the quiet , handsome man opposite her , who said little , smiled a lot , and ordered a second full fried breakfast in a way that had the waitress fit to melt into his arms . |
| 15 | In fact , one of the Road Traffic boys thought she was a Libyan terrorist at first . |
| 16 | I thought she was a lovely person . |
| 17 | Well , if he thought she was a good-time girl then that was his affair . |
| 18 | They wanted to get rid of her because they thought she was an interfering busybody . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I thought she was the cleaning woman first of all . ’ |
| 21 | First , they proved she was the biological child of the Twiggs . |
| 22 | Her father said she 's a real wart . ’ |
| 23 | The best thing to get richer is like , going round car boot sales , like my mum , she 's so funny , dad said she 's a different woman , she 's just like , cos when Phil and I erm , were engaged , we were trying to save up money , so we , oh and like we 'd sell off all our old stuff , so just give me of money , and then , we got these and my mum was pricing everything up , and she 's going , if someone asks for a discount , do n't , just do n't give it to them , she said , everyone 's going round pricing everything up and erm , when they come to you , they just , they just want things for nothing . |
| 24 | Mummy said she was a good girl when she was asleep . |
| 25 | ‘ She said she was a real fan , and loved the Royal Family , and asked if her best regards could be passed on , ’ he said . |
| 26 | And he said she was a real sweetie he said . |
| 27 | Finally , he swore and said she was a bad wife and if another woman of greater warmth came his way , no one could accuse him of adultery in taking her . |
| 28 | He said she was an avant-garde feminist who — when he first met her — was proud of the fact that she already had a child whose father no one knew . |
| 29 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
| 30 | 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 ] … . |