Example sentences of "[was/were] she [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to imagine Eleanor 's contrariness , since she rarely saw it , but even , Dorothea told herself , were she the dearest , most unselfish soul in the world , she is old , nevertheless , Alida has to carry heavily trays up and down stairs and see the food being left uneaten , to get up in the middle of night after night , to listen to the rambling memories , to put up with incoherence and with having to repeat everything because her mother did not remember . |
| 2 | Was she a serious user ? |
| 3 | ‘ Was she a healthy person ? ’ he asked me . |
| 4 | Was she a rare and special creature , some fabulous beauty , of whom Jeopardy had been fond , or had she simply been a vessel for his seed ? |
| 5 | Was she a silly adolescent girl to be so confused and seduced by a handsome face ? a beautiful body ? |
| 6 | It occurs to me : Oh good God , was she a romantic , too , in her own way ? |
| 7 | Was she a stray then ? |
| 8 | And I said oh Miss wants to know was she a little bugger |
| 9 | I said or was she a little sweetie . |
| 10 | Was she a bad cook ? |
| 11 | ‘ Was she a suicidal type ? ’ he asked me then . |
| 12 | If anyone could have written it , why was she the only one to have done so ? |
| 13 | Was she the only one in this part of the world who only spoke one language ? |
| 14 | Was she the only person in the world who felt that love was too precious a commodity to cheapen by offering it as a stake in a game where the prize was emotional titillation ? |
| 15 | Not only was she the first female to break through the glass ceiling in Engineering , but to become a star throughout the company because she did the job with such panache ? |
| 16 | But it was she the older , the larger and clumsier , who listened to him over supper . |
| 17 | Erm h was she the same age as he was or y or younger or How old was your mother ? |
| 18 | Was she the third person , whose presence he had always sensed ? |