Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kandinskaya watched her as if she were some lab specimen but eight months of training had taught Jezrael techniques that smoothed her responses to a minimum . |
| 2 | She was new medium height , dark with a shiny fringe and big brown eyes . |
| 3 | She was eight years Lewis 's senior , and a woman of high intellectual abilities . |
| 4 | Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be . |
| 5 | It was just the kind of chance she could n't miss , and if she had to miss the next flight home she was sure Lord C would understand . |
| 6 | Bill recalls that ‘ even on our honeymoon in Norfolk she was busy buying pieces of furniture ’ . |
| 7 | Yes , she was some prize fool . |
| 8 | Muggeridge and his soppy wife were in there for ages on their way through she was ear-bashing Mrs Crumwallis . ’ |
| 9 | But two days earlier she was spotted drinking champagne in a London hotel with Johnny whom , she said , ‘ was a friend who 'd just become the father of twins . ’ |
| 10 | She was afraid Major Harper would be angry but he only smiled , blue eyes twinkling . |
| 11 | She told me she was Champion Fish Gutter down the docks ! |
| 12 | — She was Champion Fish Gutter two years running ! |
| 13 | When she was plain Mrs Thatcher the former Prime Minister was a champion of free enterprise … in education as much as anything else . |
| 14 | She was glad Miss Mulliver was here . |
| 15 | The post , in the Lending Services Division , has been filled by Mrs Jill McBride , BA , ALA , who comes to NLS from East Lothian District Council 's library service where she was Bibliographic Services Librarian . |
| 16 | Now , just one year later , she was 44455 Wren McKeown , V. T. ’ a steward who would spend the remainder of the war cleaning and polishing whatever the Navy told her to clean and polish . |