Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 and she 'd fell in it and she were having right fits .
5 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 .
6 Well I knew where she were heading that night that day she came to our house .
7 She would need all her wits if she were to stand any chance of getting away from him .
8 How alarmed you must have been to discover she was receiving secret messages from some mysterious adviser , who also promised he would arrange her escape from Godstowe !
9 But I heard only this morning the story of an Arab girl whose parents have had to remove her from school because she was receiving threatening messages .
10 She was recovering last night .
11 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 .
12 ‘ Quit using those big words to impress people , ’ when she had n't been aware she was using big words .
13 bloody hell Rac I tell you what I saw Rachael today and she was looking right fat and all , it , it 's just
14 After seven years the insect was blown into the Great Hall of Inver Cechmaine and was accidentally swallowed by the wife of that nobleman ; she was reborn nine months later , again given the name Etain and growing to be an exquisitely beautiful woman .
15 She was lost all hands aboard .
16 She was denied any opportunity to appear before councillors in order to appeal against her suspension .
17 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 .
18 She was thinking that rejection brought out the best in Bert .
19 In one year alone she was overseeing twelve undergraduates , of whom eleven emerged with first-class degrees .
20 She was learning Venetian wiliness , she thought wryly .
21 If she was addressing young people she made it her business to acquaint herself with their interests .
22 She was asked discreet questions about private health insurance and , in the face of her disclaimers , equally civil ones about her credit cards .
23 Allison Dutton , 24 , was working late at her office in Cherbourg , France , where she had moved to live with her fiance , when she was stabbed 18 times .
24 She was stabbed three times , but pursued the man for 50 yards , calling for help on her radio , before she collapsed .
25 She was stabbed 15 times with scissors .
26 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 .
27 She was called Lucky Lady and had originally been bought by grandfather Alec , some forty years ago .
28 She was made Head Girl and although it was not acknowledged by anyone in authority , she was already drinking too much .
29 Oh she was screaming this morning .
30 she had fat knees in ginger stockings which kept straying apart … he could see she was wearing apricot knickers ;
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