Example sentences of "that she [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Claire was breast-feeding , her doctor asked about her diet and found that she was a vegetarian . |
| 2 | However , Julie Mendies , an adviser from within the University , buttonholed Peter with the announcement that she was a vegetarian . |
| 3 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
| 4 | The professor seemed not to realise that she was a servant , perhaps because she was so much with the Carsons as to seem almost a member of the family . |
| 5 | She let him know also that she was a virgin and wanted to save it for someone special . |
| 6 | Foujita , an inventive witness , claimed that they were lovers , although Jeanne 's friends insist that she was a virgin when she met Modigliani . |
| 7 | He knew merely from her appearance , in a way that Italian men always do , that she was a virgin . |
| 8 | The girl had told me that she was a virgin and that she was in love with me . |
| 9 | It was Artemesia who was tortured into proving that she was a virgin when she was raped and had to dispute all the ’ witnesses ’ brought in by Tassi who claimed that they had had Artemesia too . ’ |
| 10 | She thought that she was a goner : that he must surely see her . |
| 11 | Was it Mrs Rundle 's dream that she was a part of ? |
| 12 | For Mary Queen of Scots , who , as Lady Antonia Fraser has reminded us , had been conscious all her life that she was a queen regnant , there was therefore a considerable problem . |
| 13 | He did not doubt that she was a prisoner , for these were the Warden 's men who they had thought would not dare come so far into the forest . |
| 14 | The Bursar , Lesley Webb , had on her appointment been told that she was a member of the senior management team . |
| 15 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 16 | It is likely that she was a lesbian . |
| 17 | All I knew about her was that she was a schoolteacher , as Tom had been before he joined the organisation . |
| 18 | At 18 she went to East Anglia University in Norwich to study English and American Studies but there was little sign then that she was a girl who would go far . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , ’ said April , making it increasingly apparent that she was a girl of very few words . |
| 20 | SHe realised with a dreadful clench of the stomach that SHe was a morsel of raw flesh being thrown into a blood-spiced pool of hungry sharks . |
| 21 | George knew that she was a bit nonplussed at his eagerness for her to have her own social life . |
| 22 | but erm I do n't think Joan , at the time , last night , Joan said that she was a bit too tired to Bob was having to just fit in with that so I do n't know what they 're gon na do . |
| 23 | Jessica admitted freely that she was a cottage-dweller , one of the idle rich that cluttered up the streets and strands of Donegal from May to September , but at least she did n't drive a gas-guzzling BMW like some she could mention . |
| 24 | So whether the fact that they thought that she was a witch was maybe kind of half an excuse just for getting her out of the house I do n't know . |
| 25 | But he told another women , barren after five years of marriage , that she was a witch . |
| 26 | The low style is surely recalled by the colloquial " " Hé " " given to God and St Peter as noted above , and the high by the description of the young wife in Les Trois Boçus : ( a beautiful girl So beautiful that she was a delight And if I should tell you the truth I do not think that Nature ever made Any more beautiful creature . ) |
| 27 | The illusion that she was a spectator , and this was the play , was making her lose touch with reality ; and making her forget the enormity of her present predicament . |
| 28 | Father O'Malley never stopped telling me that she was a saint if ever he 'd seen one . |
| 29 | Some like Sunday long ago , the child Simon had crept up to his Indian step-grandmother when she was asleep in the same wheelchair and thrown a blanket over her , shouting that she was a canary in a cage . |
| 30 | She is very cross with Henry Green who had said in an interview in a French newspaper that she was a governess . |