Example sentences of "that she was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face seemed familiar , but it was some time before he realized that she was the curly-haired bit who had given him the slip some months back . |
| 2 | They would have gone in the bin until Tancy Evans emerged the other day to say that she was the living proof that the RD draw had winners . |
| 3 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 4 | Anne knew that she was the only live person in the carriage . |
| 5 | And Elizabeth knew that I knew all about her , and she also knew that she was the only person I 'd ever written to for a photograph . |
| 6 | That she was the only woman Hauser trusted . |
| 7 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 8 | Far less celebrated is the fact that she was the first contemporary British artist to win the international prize for painting at the Venice Biennale in 1968 . |
| 9 | She wanted to forget , had forgotten already , would go on forgetting , that she was the other one — the other one who , as some believed , was presently whiling away her days in a nunnery … |
| 10 | H.D. , nicknamed ‘ the Hama-dryad ’ , is the subject of much high-spirited comedy in the letters that Ezra and Dorothy exchanged , and this ought to provoke second thoughts in those who want to take Hilda 's account at face-value : H.D. may have honestly persuaded herself that she was the great ( though virginal ) love of Pound 's life , but it 's unlikely that Pound thought so , nor need we . |
| 11 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 12 | It is highly likely that she was the same woman that Emma Southwick imagined was having a nip with Tiller in the back room during rehearsals way back in the St James 's Hall times . |
| 13 | The first — from 1952 to 1957 — was so undistinguished that it was difficult for filmgoers to believe that she was the same actress who returned to movies after five years on Broadway . |
| 14 | When she looked at him through her veil her fears vanished and she thought that she was the luckiest girl in the world . |
| 15 | Not only did she hate him , it was the exact thing he wanted — a sign that she was the little scrubber he believed she was . |
| 16 | It was a year during which Joan came near to forgetting her humble origins — the fact that she was the orphaned daughter of a washerwoman . |