Example sentences of "she was [adj] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her ankle was aching badly and she was hot and very fed up . |
| 2 | Phyllisia found friendship in someone who was the opposite to Marian — Edith , she was poor and therefore dressed in scruffy clothes , she had gone against her father 's orders of never to see Edith again . |
| 3 | She was tall and generously built and fair , with a high colour and a red mouth and white teeth . |
| 4 | She was tall and generously made , and her clothes were self-effacing — this morning a faintly nautical look , a square-necked navy cotton sweater and a white skirt . |
| 5 | She was tall and beautifully groomed with iron-grey hair , a smooth , high-cheekboned face and a most intimidating manner . |
| 6 | She was young and well dressed . |
| 7 | John Berger believes it raises more questions than meet the eye Photograph of Pollock in his studio by Hans Namuth The suicide of art Pollock and Lee Krasner : when they first met she was 34 and better known as an artist than he was . |
| 8 | When she first met Pollock she was 34 and better known as an artist than he was . |
| 9 | In her haste she was clumsy and only succeeded in pushing the loaf of Dinkum bread and the sandwich off the table and on to the floor , already sticky from the sugar . |
| 10 | There were times when the ministry of her Son left her feeling cut out of the action , and she was amazed and perhaps frightened at what she had unleashed on the world . |
| 11 | As it was rumoured amongst the Girls that horsemeat was served , she was unadventurous and always stuck to a monotonous diet of egg and chips . |
| 12 | She was disconcerted and then enthralled by Lenny Bruce 's spitfire monologues , his explosive mix of four-letter words and Yiddishisms which hit at the gut of hypocrisies . |
| 13 | On the other , the only memory was that I had chosen as my lodgings , from the Equity good-digs book , an establishment under the auspices of a Madam somebody or other , under the mistaken impression that she was French and therefore bound to produce the most delicious cuisine for which her country was rightly famous . |
| 14 | She was shrewd and quite calculating even then . |
| 15 | I had a phone call to Israel the other night and somebody who is very experienced in stress prevention , but still she was afraid and just finding out how isolated those kind of , you know , how isolated they 're feeling out there , the fear of the chemical warfare , and maybe now I 'm able to write to her to reduce some of that isolation . |
| 16 | Another nanny beat Diana on the head with a wooden spoon if she was naughty or alternatively banged Charles and Diana 's heads together . |
| 17 | As a photographer , she was unique and sometimes terrifying in her decision to publicly share her experience as victim of the social discourses of the family , health and the law . |
| 18 | She was bright-eyed and faintly flushed . |