Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She reckons it were that chap she worked for , the one what lives in one of they new houses here in Upper Benbury . ’ |
| 2 | Of course , there were some things she could not know about . |
| 3 | All she had were some notes she made in the car , witnessed by Dexter . |
| 4 | There were some steps she did remember having seen before , perhaps she would find them down there . |
| 5 | Here were unexpected turnings she could not recognize ; and there was something else , she thought , suddenly apprehensive . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But thinking about Guido and the race were two things she 'd been trying very hard not to do . |
| 8 | There were two routes she could take . |
| 9 | There were other things she had to do in her life , things forces beyond the reach of her mind deemed important . |
| 10 | There were other legits she might have bribed or bullied into a similar sharing , but the stairs and the other dusty corners of the World were safer for someone who lived by her knife and her wits . |
| 11 | The judge said there was little chance she 'd ever be freed . |
| 12 | The judge said there was little chance she 'd ever be freed . |
| 13 | But then there was that day she gave me the brooch what she said I was n't never to forget . |
| 14 | Was that boredom she could detect in his voice ? |
| 15 | What was that fake she 'd practised with Ricky and Dancer last week ? |
| 16 | Yeah but if she was proper vegetarian she would n't eat cheese . |
| 17 | And it was high time she retired . |
| 18 | It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate . |
| 19 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 20 | Dr Barnardo 's was another charity she took on at about the same time ; this charity has left its old orphanage image behind , and the Princess feels her connections with it have been fruitful . |
| 21 | It was another world she was in , a world of promise that was even better when the grey weather lifted on the following Wednesday . |
| 22 | This was another reason she had n't wanted to get into this conversation . |
| 23 | That was another thing she 'd noticed . |
| 24 | An ex-boyfriend of Suzannah said : ‘ She has a quiet , gentle personality and there was some surprise she would go for someone like Bates . ’ |
| 25 | But there was no noise from behind , only the distant wail of music from the zigzag city , and Jezrael began to wonder if there was some threat she did n't know about . |
| 26 | ‘ Where are you taking me ? ’ she demanded , wishing there was some way she could force an answer out of him . |
| 27 | She moistened her lips , wishing there was some way she could avoid his shrewd gaze , but his hands caught at her arms as she tried to turn away . |
| 28 | There was some programme she wanted to do , but I could n't do it , so we talked about our holidays . |
| 29 | He thought it was some research she was doing . |
| 30 | Mostly it was hot chocolate she made , warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it . |