Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sighed as she realised it was a Californian bedroom , wooden floors and a window the length of one wall overlooking trees and a river , on a hilltop . |
| 2 | The thought swam into her mind out of nowhere and she felt vaguely guilty when she realised it was a great relief to have this excuse . |
| 3 | When she realized I was a good thief and knew how to use a knife , she got to like me . |
| 4 | Tabitha thought it was some kind of antenna ; then she realized it was an empty perch . |
| 5 | But she found it was a different school with different faces . |
| 6 | When it came to her turn to scramble ashore , she found it was no easy task to move the balance beam which swung the gates open . |
| 7 | She paced the garden ; she found it was an exact square . |
| 8 | She said she gave it to her daughter because she believed it was the only drug which could help alleviate her condition . |
| 9 | And she believed it was the same with him . |
| 10 | Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She decided he was a good deal more accomplished than the people he served . |
| 13 | she took that out in the , in the same year as we started the mortgage , she thought it was a good idea to take some extra saving . |
| 14 | And in fact what I did do was erm went and bought her a secondhand wardrobe , took it to her , and she was really pleased because apparently she thought it was a better one than the first one . |
| 15 | She thought she would have to hold on extremely tightly if they were to go any faster , but she thought it was a thrilling , intoxicating sensation to be borne along like this . |
| 16 | She thought it was a huge joke . |
| 17 | For a moment she was confused ; she thought it was the thin man , and she could n't work out how he 'd got behind them . |
| 18 | I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard . |
| 19 | There was a shrieking in her ears , so vibratingly shrill that for an instant she thought it was the whole Glass Castle shivering to pieces — then she looked up and saw the Women sweeping down on them , screaming their war cry . |
| 20 | She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity . |
| 21 | She thought he was the handsomest of them all . |
| 22 | My mum never warned me about getting pregnant because she thought I was a good girl . |
| 23 | She remembers Bailey taking her home to meet Gladys in East Ham : ‘ She was quite severe , but I liked her , although she thought I was a hoity-toity little madam . |
| 24 | She knew they were a light-saddle horse with a good disposition in spite of the spirited , fiery temperament . |
| 25 | She knew it was a modern world and that it happened to people all the time and that it was n't such a big deal — medically or culturally . |
| 26 | ‘ I meant what I said on the plane , ’ she reminded him stiffly , even though she knew it was a wasted effort . |
| 27 | ‘ Maybe she 'd let you enter with me , if she knew it was a true vocation . ’ |
| 28 | So many times she had told herself that , and each time she knew it was an impossible thing to do . |
| 29 | Even as she said it , she knew it was an outrageous suggestion . |
| 30 | Thérèse respectfully sent the nuns a faire-part , edged in black ; she knew it was the correct thing to do . |