Example sentences of "she was [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was just a girl with a sweet smile and a pretty face , her hair drawn back into some kind of fishnet behind . |
| 2 | It was clear to him she was just a playmate of years long gone . |
| 3 | She was just a subject to be questioned . |
| 4 | He comforted himself by assuming that she was just a mother-figure to the young man and there could n't possibly be any sex in it . |
| 5 | She was just a fact of life . |
| 6 | She was also a member of the National Society for Women 's Suffrage . |
| 7 | She was also a member of the team that developed the recently launched New Initial Award in Management ( NIAM ) . |
| 8 | Medau interested her enough for Olive to take part in our first training course and she was also a member of one of our early display teams . |
| 9 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 10 | If in some respects , Jennens 's life was rather quiet and domestic , she was also a woman of imagination . |
| 11 | Though Jane — scurrilously known as ‘ hot-pants ’ — earned her share of notoriety in that year , she was also a creature of considerable balance and judgement , no fool , certainly not just a pretty face . |
| 12 | She was also a leader in the struggle for admission of women to fellowship in the London Chemical Society . |
| 13 | She was also a defender of the sport of boxing . |
| 14 | She was formerly a lecturer at the |
| 15 | At the time Peter supposed she was either a connoisseur of funerals or a casual visitor who , finding herself in the middle of the funeral , had stayed because she was too embarrassed to leave . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Whatever else the mysterious Arianna might be , she was clearly a woman of taste . |
| 18 | She was later a member of its council ( 1931–4 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Exactly , and it did n't improve matters from Alfred 's point of view when he discovered that she was already a couple of months pregnant by Matthew when she married him . ’ |
| 20 | Her prolonged treatment as an in-patient meant that she was nearly a year in Addenbrookes hospital , over a year in Hinchinbrook hospital and a further year at Hunstead Park rehabilitation and medical centre . |
| 21 | ‘ She Was Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage . ’ |
| 22 | If he wanted her , even if it was only to satiate a temporary need , even if she was only a substitute for the woman he really wanted , then she would oblige , because he had reduced her will-power to nothing . |
| 23 | But I could just not get to sleep that night , and she was only a baby at the time , she could n't sleep . |
| 24 | But on the run to the post Bassetja was passed by Velma and the useful Top Generation , although she was only a length behind the runner-up at the finish . |
| 25 | She says she was only a courier in an operation organised by Lock . |
| 26 | She was only a typist in the navy . |
| 27 | But the beloved was unattainable either because she belonged to another or because , like his muse , she forever eluded him as she was only a figment of his imagination . |
| 28 | she was there a couple of years ago , two or three years ago . |
| 29 | Her picture on the cover of Elle magazine , when she was still a schoolgirl of fifteen from a strict bourgeois family , led her to Roger Vadim , who let her out of her birdcage by marrying her in 1952 despite parental reluctance . |
| 30 | She was still a way from him when he stretched out his left hand to grasp hers from a distance . |