Example sentences of "she [was/were] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephanie did not like cut glass : she was of the generation that discovered the plain , the functional , the Finnish , Dartington . |
| 2 | She gave me the names of all her friends and said how proud she was of the life her father had given her . |
| 3 | She was of the opinion there was more to the girl than might reasonably be expected . |
| 4 | Far from being tempted to explain anything then , she was of the view that she 'd see him in hell first . |
| 5 | Fergus had divined how afraid she was of the doll-mask and had dealt with it in his own way , daring her to let it all hang out , quoting Yeats at her in his Irish voice . |
| 6 | ‘ … poor , almost illiterate … her pride was that she was of the Clanranald . |