Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had come her way because , leaving them in charge of Mrs Gracie , Dinah had gone for diversion to what she expected to be a dull sewing-meeting in the Islington church where she and Paul had been married . |
| 2 | Then she pretended to be a mute — she always invented some oddness about herself when consorting with the preening rich boys of the city . |
| 3 | But this was achieved only because she happened to be a good listener , and , after a few leading questions about his earlier life in the high , mountainous country of the South Island , he talked almost non-stop . |
| 4 | She happened to be a staunch Methodist and that at least offered me some welcome continuity . |
| 5 | Sometimes he forgot and gave them again , which she took to be a good sign . |
| 6 | Two floors above , Jude heard what she took to be a domestic argument , and not wanting somebody else 's marital strife to sour her fine mood , was crossing to turn up the soul song on the turntable when somebody knocked on the door . |
| 7 | David Wright , prosecuting for Liverpool environmental health department , said : ‘ She began to eat the roll and felt what she thought to be a chunky piece of lettuce . |
| 8 | The ‘ chair ’ moved swiftly to his rescue , bowling him what she thought to be a slow ball . |
| 9 | She proved to be a pleasant soul whose husband had been drowned at sea . |
| 10 | ‘ Because Stapleton thought that she would be very much more useful to him if she appeared to be a free woman . ’ |
| 11 | She had to be a passive , consenting thing , like a slave , a physical slave … . |
| 12 | There had been a time when , like everyone else at the school , she had said she wanted to be a professional dancer , or an actress , or anything else that was exciting and totally different from working in a bank or being a dairy farmer 's wife . |
| 13 | He held out his arms then , and because she hurt so much , because she wanted to be a little girl again , she went to him and the tears came . |
| 14 | She wanted to be a little girl in the safe balmy house , with the dear old grannies and grandfathers , and the big pussy-cat , and the doll 's house beds and all the lovely windows . |
| 15 | She had also decided to invite Louise and Miriam , whom she wanted to impress with her domestic abilities , but only after a struggle in which she was torn between the pleasure of impressing them and the displeasure of having two more women and thereby disturbing what she considered to be a favourable balance of the sexes . |
| 16 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 17 | She clambered up into the car to take a closer look at them , careful though to remain at what she considered to be a safe distance . |