Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] this [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Oh she was screaming this morning . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No , she was chatting this morning and that . |
| 7 | He 'd told her about Valldemosa too , which was why she was taking this route to the north of the island . |
| 8 | This sight brought her immediately down from her high , tragic pinnacle and made it seem all somehow cosier , as she thought she was sharing this music with such a wise and friendly dog . |
| 9 | Besides which , sympathy was not the feeling this potently masculine man she was sharing this canoe with stirred in her . |
| 10 | She was tackling this man on his own terms and at some time she would be doing it head-on . |
| 11 | She was to marry this mountebank , this hypocritical toad of a Sir Thomas . |
| 12 | It was a strange pilgrimage she was making this Sunday afternoon . |
| 13 | she says the hum , and then she was telling us when she brought the tape back the other day one of her interviews was telling her she was interviewing this man s er out of , out of the blue take off all your clothes please . |
| 14 | He looked down at her steadily and Maggie tried to stay cool , but she was losing this battle and she knew it . |
| 15 | ‘ She was coming this evening . |