Example sentences of "she was [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She was just the boss 's daughter , a rather timid and drab little thing in his estimation .
2 But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming .
3 In eighteen oh six , erm a law was passed which said that all property of a woman went over to the man on their marriage , including herself , so the woman was no longer an individual , she was just the property of the man and she could be disciplined and punished if the man felt like it .
4 She was also the price her mother had to pay for her freedom . ’
5 She was also the girl most men wanted to go to bed with .
6 She was also the company 's assistant ballet mistress and later became , under her real name of Anne Woolliams , John 's ballet mistress in Stuttgart .
7 She was also the person who would decide on the success or failure of Doug 's probationary period .
8 Madame was there every night , she was The Bar and she was also the reason why so many of us went there all the time .
9 She was also the Count 's mistress .
10 goddess in human form whose symbol was the throne of mother of Horus and the king , but she was also the sister-wife of Osiris and protector of the dead .
11 Cos she was n't the nurse cos she walked in half way through the inquest .
12 She wanted desperately to make him understand that she was n't the kind of girl Giles had labelled her .
13 In fact , his parents had both been excruciatingly polite to her , but that had only made it even more obvious that she was n't the kind of wife they wanted for their clever , ambitious son .
14 She was n't the shape for running , she decided , although she was growing taller suddenly — too tall for her liking , because Midnight was only fourteen and a bit hands .
15 And she was n't the type of person to have frills around her neck , for God 's sake !
16 She was n't the woman I came to seek , ’ said Catriona aloud .
17 She was n't the woman I came to seek . ’
18 How could she be , when she was n't the woman he loved ?
19 As Jacqui herself admitted , she was n't the sort of consort for a ‘ do with the Queen Mum ’ .
20 Jacqui 's occupation had n't improved it ; she was n't the sort of girl who immediately revolutionized a place and gave it a woman 's touch ; she just spread her belongings over the widest possible area .
21 It was remarkably easy because she was n't the sort of woman to be star-struck so easily and quickly .
22 As a result of the Government 's policy , the pensioner 's widow is more than £17 per week less well off in real terms than she was when the Government came to power .
23 Mrs Thatcher rejected a personal campaign , preferring to emphasise her stature by carrying out her normal official duties which included a visit to Ulster and attendance at the Security and Cooperation summit in Paris ( where she was when the result of the first ballot was announced ) .
24 ‘ W-who … ? ’ she stammered , while some part of her intelligence prodded away that — could it be that he somehow knew that she was not the person she was pretending to be ?
25 She had always thought she was not the type to ring the Samaritans .
26 But before falling in love with Lucy , she was not the type to lie awake , miss meals , weep , miss work , lose weight , have eczema , fall asleep with the light and fire blazing , feel hopeless , feel that everything was more or less meaningless , be unable to cope .
27 For he 'd known she would n't go , that he was perfectly safe , that she was not the type to impose herself where she knew she was n't wanted .
28 She was not the type of woman necessary for this man 's happiness .
29 She was not the whore who lurks under the demure exterior of even the most respectable wife and mother .
30 She was not the kind of mother who by carelessness would make her child feel insecure .
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