Example sentences of "[subord] she was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is usually shown wearing a religious habit ( although she was never a nun ) and either surrounded by or wearing garlands of roses . |
| 2 | But on the run to the post Bassetja was passed by Velma and the useful Top Generation , although she was only a length behind the runner-up at the finish . |
| 3 | Once she was just a village … |
| 4 | Once she was just a village … |
| 5 | cos she was only a bit then . |
| 6 | If she was just a pop star she would not be able to do it , ’ said Mel Bush . |
| 7 | For all I knew she was with you , but if she was just a visitor , I had to make sure she would be all right . |
| 8 | If he wanted her , even if it was only to satiate a temporary need , even if she was only a substitute for the woman he really wanted , then she would oblige , because he had reduced her will-power to nothing . |
| 9 | She was a woman , and , even if she was hardly the sophisticate Nicolo imagined her to be , at least she knew what passion was . |
| 10 | Unless she was simply a prize bitch , Alexandra thought . |
| 11 | Geoffrey , spying Stella mooning about the prop room , imagined she was upset because she was only an understudy . |
| 12 | While she was still a novice , Stephen insisted that her daily rides should be accompanied by a groom . |
| 13 | ROCKER Bill Wyman has admitted knowing his relationship with Mandy Smith while she was still a teenager was ‘ morally wrong ’ . |
| 14 | Mrs Thatcher claimed to have read Hayek 's Road to Serfdom while she was still a student at Somerville College , Oxford , just after the war ; but it was not until the 1970s , while in opposition , that she seems to have read Hayek 's writings more generally . |
| 15 | I do n't know whether she was ever a Brownie , but she was a Girl Guide , and I do know she 'd love to have you around if you 're mad on horses . ’ |
| 16 | Her earliest memory was of him holding her tightly by the hand , when she was just a toddler , in case she strayed too near the rushing river . |
| 17 | She bought her first antique when she was just a teenager — an Edwardian bed for £8 , slightly less than her weekly wage at the time . |
| 18 | The Nicholsons do know that Natasha 's young mother dumped her illegitimate daughter in an orphanage when she was just a month old . |
| 19 | When she had opened The Bar , Madame had kept up the costume in which she 'd worked when she was just an entertainer in other people 's places — she 'd worked in them all . |
| 20 | And then when I had my little girl er when she was about a year old |
| 21 | Her picture on the cover of Elle magazine , when she was still a schoolgirl of fifteen from a strict bourgeois family , led her to Roger Vadim , who let her out of her birdcage by marrying her in 1952 despite parental reluctance . |
| 22 | The whole place seemed as empty and deserted as the Beast 's magic castle , though she was certainly no Beauty , Luce thought ruefully . |
| 23 | The 15-year-old South Shields schoolgirl described it as ‘ pathetic ’ , even though she was only a second away from the record . |
| 24 | But the beloved was unattainable either because she belonged to another or because , like his muse , she forever eluded him as she was only a figment of his imagination . |