Example sentences of "she [be] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under his dark , quizzical gaze she felt as if she were under a microscope as she forced her legs to move , glued a polite smile on her lips . |
| 2 | As she were in a hurry an' it were ready I said you 'd send on t' bill . ’ |
| 3 | But if it is n't true , then of course she 's for a flogging and prison : or worse . ’ |
| 4 | It were born on , Yvon Yvon hang on , get it Yvonne 's birthday is the first of February , and mine 's the twenty first , but she 'll be a year older than me , so she 's like a year and twenty days |
| 5 | She 's like a cat that 's found a way to milk cows . ’ |
| 6 | I was afraid for her , anxious all the time , but she is like a monkey when she is in the saddle . |
| 7 | She is in a wheelchair and must weigh 18–20 stones , have at least a 54-inch chest and upwards of 70 inches around a massive stomach hernia . |
| 8 | At first , she was my running idol and then , when I got to know her , I realised how nice she was as a person as well . |
| 9 | Six months later , having kept her breast intact , she was at a party when the surgeon appeared on the other side of the room . |
| 10 | But when she made a last appeal , and told him , though feeling it was not quite true , that Martha had asked him to bring her father back , and then , very unwisely , referred again to Mrs Hodge , and the house , and the single bed , and even the temple bells , and asked him why he did n't come to his senses and whether he did n't think he 'd be happier living with a woman , whether she was on a boat or not , he turned on her , upsetting the bowl of water in front of the gas fire , and shouted : |
| 11 | She had never found any place in the world intimidating when she was after a story and she had the ability to ferret out facts , an uncanny instinct for the truth . |
| 12 | She was in a lift and the lift would n't stop at the right floor but kept going first up and then down , past the numbers she wanted . |
| 13 | She was in a housedress and held a duster in her hand . |
| 14 | I got her there , she said she was in a hurry because she was afraid to leave Keith too long I said well I 'm in a hurry as well so I got her there as quick as I could and erm |
| 15 | It was as though she was in an off-mood and was being a bit funny . ’ |
| 16 | she was in an Orion but the front end of it was a Escort |
| 17 | Of course the ideal place for her is in a home but it 's a question of money . |