Example sentences of "[subord] she [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not present them , at fifty-five and sixty , with the same situation they had had to face twenty years earlier when my mother had come home from the teacher 's training college where she was a lecturer in medieval history , given birth to me , and died of it . |
| 2 | Casares-Roach had moved to England in 1968 , and had a multitude of contacts through her trade-union activities , especially in the T and G , where she was a member of one of the national committees . |
| 3 | THE FAMILY of a woman who died of Legionnaires ' Disease victim are to sue health chiefs at the Merseyside hospital where she was a patient . |
| 4 | SINGER Cathy Dennis , above , has just returned from Houston , Texas , where she was a guest of honour at America 's largest Thanksgiving Day parade . |
| 5 | After one year 's training there , where she was a model pupil , she worked as a sister at the Great Northern Hospital . |
| 6 | Although she was a widow , she did n't usually wear black . |
| 7 | He could see her give a mental thumbs-up : although she was a bit young , Georgina Would Do . |
| 8 | Although she was a feminist , her primary motivation for joining NoS was the challenge of working on a tabloid . |
| 9 | Emecheta insisted that although she was a girl she wanted an education and managed to get a scholarship to the Methodist Girls ' High School . |
| 10 | More real than other people because her face was so familiar , although she was a stranger . |
| 11 | For one thing , although she was a distraction , she did try not to be . |
| 12 | I payed with my Vista card and although she was a hockey player , when she invited me to the opera I igried to go . |
| 13 | ‘ So she was a friend of yours , then ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ So she was a prostitute at the age of nine ? ’ |
| 15 | cos she was a bit young , she was more like my young sister age |
| 16 | And as we come out I said to Rudy I feel we ought to go up and see if Wendy 's alright , cos she was a bit upset at quarter to twelve . |
| 17 | I bought Amanda a card yesterday cos she was a bit down so I thought , oh I 'll send her one a card , and I got one from . |
| 18 | that 's right , that 's , that , I think it was so , I mean that she was so it must be just something to do with gardens as well , cos she was a gardener was n't she ? , |
| 19 | Erm when they were doing the dance thingies cos she was a dressmaker , Dyllis was , she used to say look at these ! |
| 20 | How could she describe herself as a revolutionary , a serious person , if she were a thief ? |
| 21 | At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes . |
| 22 | She stared at her mother as if she were a ghost , a ghost with streaming blonde hair who wore a tightly unmaternal black dress and puffed incessantly at her cigarette . |
| 23 | ‘ Loretta ! ’ he exclaimed , greeting her as if she were a friend of many years ' standing . |
| 24 | Picking her up as if she were a doll , he placed her on to unsteady feet . |
| 25 | He whipped back the covers and moved her into bed as if she were a doll , watching her for a second and then turning away . |
| 26 | She prided herself on her strength — and yet this man , who had already proven he could stand up to her verbally , was holding her off as she if she were a feather . |
| 27 | How much easier it would be if she were a newspaper reporter , like Tracey , she thought . |
| 28 | She walked as if she were a queen . |
| 29 | Jeff loves it ; he strokes his hand over her head as if she were a child . |
| 30 | One of them would come and talk to me as I sat beside Aunt Louise , and discuss her with me as if she were a child . |