Example sentences of "[coord] she [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either that , or she was a mistress of the art , pretending to trip , stumble and fall just to thrill the crowd . |
| 2 | During the Tokugawa period the position of an individual was governed by the various groups of which he or she was a member , and this remained true in the post-Restoration years . |
| 3 | Those spending any time in a residential home were less often described as having a poor quality of life if the respondent was a staff member than if he or she was a relative : 10 per cent compared with 42 per cent . |
| 4 | that he or she is or has been a director of a company which has at any time become insolvent ( whether while he or she was a director or subsequently ) ; and |
| 5 | Given our human circumstances , it is extremely difficult for any human observer to investigate a member of his own species as if he or she were a creature of nature , out there , on the other side of the plate glass . |
| 6 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 7 | Saw her last night and she was a bit blown . |
| 8 | And she was a bit blind in one |
| 9 | Her name was Linda , and she was a year younger than Tony . |
| 10 | And Mellor willingly accepted her lavish hospitality — even though he was Arts Minister at the time and she was a film producer . |
| 11 | Her name was Margery , and she was a nurse . |
| 12 | She seemed fascinated by Benjamin as if he was telling some mysterious tale on a cold winter 's night and she was a spectator , not a party to it . |
| 13 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |
| 14 | She was nothing and she was love and she was a voice singing in the desert , full of trust , full of gladness at her deliverance . |
| 15 | All them years since , and she was a widow and , and she was er ever so nice , lovely home and clean , but the bed was , it , it was n't just flock it were part Taylor |
| 16 | And she was a mother too — she and Varna had a child — a little girl who was about four at the time . |
| 17 | ‘ They had met when he was a young and not tremendously enthusiastic policeman and she was a waitress in a seafront cafe . |
| 18 | ‘ Used to carry your Auntie up here when I was a young man and she was a babby , ’ he said . |
| 19 | and she was a teacher . |
| 20 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 21 | Kate was a woman in every sense of the word , and she was a woman who would not give herself to a man lightly . |
| 22 | And she was a woman . |
| 23 | Women never are , and she was a woman who had experienced more of life than her years would contain . |
| 24 | She cared , desperately , when the Curtis Cup side was read out at Bissett 's Hotel , Gullane , and she was not in the team , but that was more because of wounded pride than anything else , for the match was to be played at Muirfield and she was a native of East Lothian linksland . |
| 25 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |
| 26 | Agnes 's mother , Alice Conway , had two assets : she was an excellent cook and she was a homemaker , at least where material things were concerned . |
| 27 | Her neame were Jade , an' she were a reet grand dog . |
| 28 | Mrs Tremayne did all she could , but she were a bit too possessive . |
| 29 | Y'know , Barbra Streisand has a nose that is beyond a nose , but she was a style icon . |
| 30 | I say gel but she was a year older than me at least . |