Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 2 | She had thrown herself into his arms and hugged him as if she were still a schoolgirl . |
| 3 | [ PAMELA begins to serve them with wine as if she were still a servant . ] |
| 4 | ‘ You have never got out of the childish habit of trying to do several things at once , ’ Sally had said to her once ; Sally , so cool , so contained , so efficient she sometimes made Harriet feel as if she were still a child , though of course she would never admit it . |
| 5 | If she were still a person . |
| 6 | Jo figured that her mother was probably a nympho — after all , it took one to know one and Jo thought she was probably a nympho herself . |
| 7 | To her country , to her Embassy , she was just a cipher , a functionary , a unit of assassination , to be dispensed with when its use was extinguished . |
| 8 | Having taken Joyce gently back through her childhood , we reached a time when she was just a toddler . |
| 9 | Her earliest memory was of him holding her tightly by the hand , when she was just a toddler , in case she strayed too near the rushing river . |
| 10 | She was just a girl with a sweet smile and a pretty face , her hair drawn back into some kind of fishnet behind . |
| 11 | To me she was just a brain , a scientific machine in a bedworthy body . |
| 12 | It was clear to him she was just a playmate of years long gone . |
| 13 | She was just a subject to be questioned . |
| 14 | I think she was just a bit hot . |
| 15 | As for the rest of the staff — well , I suppose to them she was just a name — another client . ’ |
| 16 | She was just a child . |
| 17 | Once she was just a village … |
| 18 | Once she was just a village … |
| 19 | But she had long red hair and she was just a work friend . |
| 20 | Did he think she was just a face and body , a woman so enamoured of herself and her career that she had no emotions ? |
| 21 | The Nicholsons do know that Natasha 's young mother dumped her illegitimate daughter in an orphanage when she was just a month old . |
| 22 | She bought her first antique when she was just a teenager — an Edwardian bed for £8 , slightly less than her weekly wage at the time . |
| 23 | For all I knew she was with you , but if she was just a visitor , I had to make sure she would be all right . |
| 24 | He comforted himself by assuming that she was just a mother-figure to the young man and there could n't possibly be any sex in it . |
| 25 | She was just a fact of life . |
| 26 | ‘ And then , when he brought the lady … no , she was n't a lady , she was just a woman , and her voice was common and she called me duckie and … and I said to them , ‘ I 'm going to scream . ’ |
| 27 | But no , she had never been observed doing anything ‘ noticeable ’ in any way , she was just a woman going about her life , and apparently enjoying it . |
| 28 | If she was just a pop star she would not be able to do it , ’ said Mel Bush . |
| 29 | She was also a delight to behold with her golden curls , and the two formed a real picture out there in the garden . |
| 30 | It was rumoured that she was also a poisoner and a witch . |