Example sentences of "she was [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knew that she was no longer a child . |
| 2 | Before she finished here and made her way to the sitting room , there were certain things she must say to Cissie , and she must say them without alarming the girl , yet , at the same time , make her aware that she was no longer a child , that she already had the mark of a woman on her . |
| 3 | She wanted so much to confide in Cissie , to share her secret , and after all Cissie was right in saying she was no longer a child . |
| 4 | In the strange light she was no longer a milkmaid , but a vision of woman , the whole of womanhood in one form . |
| 5 | In his arms she was no longer a thinking , rational person , she was merely a being consumed by the flames of need . |
| 6 | She was no longer the proprietor of SUPPLYKITS but the managing director and major shareholder of a public company . |
| 7 | She was no longer the ingenue who had wowed audiences on Broadway with New Faces . |
| 8 | She was no longer the girl she had been when they had first come to live at Cherry Tree Farm . |
| 9 | She was no longer the victim of chance , of a malign fate . |
| 10 | She was no longer the fairy-tale Princess but the royal shopaholic who had lavished a fortune on an endless array of new outfits . |
| 11 | He 'd been careful not to tell her anything , but she was n't altogether a fool . |
| 12 | She hung up , leaving me thinking that if she was n't actually a spy , she was wasted . |
| 13 | Perhaps she was n't really a dragon … but then again , dragons were often in disguise , were n't they ? |
| 14 | She was n't always an Englishwoman either , although more often than not the headmaster gave one of his parents British nationality . |
| 15 | She was not exactly a refugee from the violence of invaders like many other Anglo-Saxon women , including one whose case we shall soon encounter : she was simply a woman of royal birth being educated in a monastery awaiting a suitable marriage . |
| 16 | She was not primarily a warship but did carry eight ‘ patteroes ’ , anti-personnel guns which fired a lethal scattering of stones . |
| 17 | Diana replied that she was not yet a member of his family and , what 's more , she had no other dress suitable for the occasion . |
| 18 | But that was why he 'd told Doreen she was not yet the hostess . |
| 19 | Since the infant plaintiff was at the time of the accident en ventre sa mère she was not then a person or a human being in esse and in fact she had no separate existence apart from her mother . |
| 20 | ‘ However , I have been provided with information which leads me to think she was not entirely an angel herself , which is no excuse for you . |
| 21 | ‘ However , I have been provided with information which leads me to think she was not entirely an angel herself , which is no excuse for you . |
| 22 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 23 | She was now only a step away from her target , so she was n't far from getting to know him well enough to question him about his allegiance — just as long as she could keep his escort sweet , which would probably mean more bondage if that was the only way he could get his nuts off . |
| 24 | But from my own researches it became plain to me that she was very much a person of her times , as compared with Beatrice Webb who became so much a critic of her times . |
| 25 | He mentally called her a child to avoid admitting that she was very much a woman . |
| 26 | Though an Anglican , she was very much an adherent of the evangelical , low church wing of her religion . |
| 27 | There were pictures in one of Gloria 's magazines of the decorated carriage Pulled by plumed horses that Her Majesty had travelled in before she became Her Majesty the Queen , when she was still just a Lady , on her way to be married . |
| 28 | She was too much a part of him . |
| 29 | The Shah had actually asked his twin sister , Princess Ashraf , to leave the country — she was too much the symbol of the royal family excesses . |
| 30 | She was as much a proponent of the study of natural history as her husband , and had founded a botanical garden on the banks of the Derwent just outside Hobart . |