Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still remember my headmaster 's damning indictment : ‘ Jeannette could be a Cambridge scholar if she were to stop this nonsense of falling in love . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She were born that way . |
| 3 | She felt again that same deep chill , that same sense of horror she had always felt when in the presence of such venom , as if she were discovering that evil really did exist , that liberal attitudes were vaporous , that filth could find its way into the universe and be embodied and spread relentlessly , terrifying those it infected . |
| 4 | You 'd think they would n't want to be seen in public ; but no , there they are , living it up , and my own daughter aiding and abetting them as if she were doing some thing clever . |
| 5 | Well I knew where she were heading that night that day she came to our house . |
| 6 | She would need all her wits if she were to stand any chance of getting away from him . |
| 7 | She was recovering last night . |
| 8 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
| 9 | bloody hell Rac I tell you what I saw Rachael today and she was looking right fat and all , it , it 's just |
| 10 | She was denied any opportunity to appear before councillors in order to appeal against her suspension . |
| 11 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
| 12 | She was thinking that rejection brought out the best in Bert . |
| 13 | She was learning Venetian wiliness , she thought wryly . |
| 14 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 15 | She was called Lucky Lady and had originally been bought by grandfather Alec , some forty years ago . |
| 16 | She was made Head Girl and although it was not acknowledged by anyone in authority , she was already drinking too much . |
| 17 | Oh she was screaming this morning . |
| 18 | She was wearing long evening gloves , indeed seemed to be fully dressed for a ball . |
| 19 | He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote . |
| 20 | She was wearing big maternity clothes and felt " dead weird " being with everyone else in school uniform . |
| 21 | She was wearing pink shintiyan . ’ |
| 22 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 23 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 24 | She was wearing grey jogging bottoms , a lilac floral sweatshirt , white trainers and a long navy-blue overcoat when last seen in hospital . |
| 25 | She was wearing huge aviator glasses , designed to hide but only drawing attention to the palely perfect face , the unlipsticked mouth , the silvery blonde hair fine as maize silk , which was drawn back into the nape of her neck . |
| 26 | She was wearing white cotton jeans , a peach-coloured T-shirt and white tennis shoes . |
| 27 | She was given concentrated treatment over each weekend . |
| 28 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |
| 29 | She was given extended leave from the show by bosses at Grundy , who were already losing the battle to persuade her to stay on as Charlene . |
| 30 | Further results showed that her immunoglobulins were low , particularly IgG with a value of 5.11 g/l , and she was given intravenous immunoglobulin ( Gammimmune-N , 25 g ) to aid her recovery . |