Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If she were not the daughter of such an important family … ’ |
| 2 | This came out so comically that they both began to laugh together , Neil putting his book down , and McAllister whooping into the apron which she had thrown over her head at his last sally , as though she were truly the skivvy she pretended to be . |
| 3 | She was just the boss 's daughter , a rather timid and drab little thing in his estimation . |
| 4 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 5 | In eighteen oh six , erm a law was passed which said that all property of a woman went over to the man on their marriage , including herself , so the woman was no longer an individual , she was just the property of the man and she could be disciplined and punished if the man felt like it . |
| 6 | She was also the price her mother had to pay for her freedom . ’ |
| 7 | She was also the girl most men wanted to go to bed with . |
| 8 | She was also the company 's assistant ballet mistress and later became , under her real name of Anne Woolliams , John 's ballet mistress in Stuttgart . |
| 9 | She was also the person who would decide on the success or failure of Doug 's probationary period . |
| 10 | Madame was there every night , she was The Bar and she was also the reason why so many of us went there all the time . |
| 11 | She was also the Stationmaster 's daughter , you see , and we used to talk to each other telephone you see and erm , well that 's as far as I 've got now . |
| 12 | She was also the Count 's mistress . |
| 13 | goddess in human form whose symbol was the throne of mother of Horus and the king , but she was also the sister-wife of Osiris and protector of the dead . |
| 14 | Cos she was n't the nurse cos she walked in half way through the inquest . |
| 15 | She wanted desperately to make him understand that she was n't the kind of girl Giles had labelled her . |
| 16 | In fact , his parents had both been excruciatingly polite to her , but that had only made it even more obvious that she was n't the kind of wife they wanted for their clever , ambitious son . |
| 17 | She was n't the shape for running , she decided , although she was growing taller suddenly — too tall for her liking , because Midnight was only fourteen and a bit hands . |
| 18 | And she was n't the type of person to have frills around her neck , for God 's sake ! |
| 19 | ‘ She was n't the woman I came to seek , ’ said Catriona aloud . |
| 20 | ‘ She was n't the woman I came to seek . ’ |
| 21 | How could she be , when she was n't the woman he loved ? |
| 22 | As Jacqui herself admitted , she was n't the sort of consort for a ‘ do with the Queen Mum ’ . |
| 23 | Jacqui 's occupation had n't improved it ; she was n't the sort of girl who immediately revolutionized a place and gave it a woman 's touch ; she just spread her belongings over the widest possible area . |
| 24 | It was remarkably easy because she was n't the sort of woman to be star-struck so easily and quickly . |
| 25 | As a result of the Government 's policy , the pensioner 's widow is more than £17 per week less well off in real terms than she was when the Government came to power . |
| 26 | Mrs Thatcher rejected a personal campaign , preferring to emphasise her stature by carrying out her normal official duties which included a visit to Ulster and attendance at the Security and Cooperation summit in Paris ( where she was when the result of the first ballot was announced ) . |
| 27 | To me , at that moment , she was instead the Snow Queen , the Snow White in the glass case , the Princess at the ball . |
| 28 | ‘ W-who … ? ’ she stammered , while some part of her intelligence prodded away that — could it be that he somehow knew that she was not the person she was pretending to be ? |
| 29 | She had always thought she was not the type to ring the Samaritans . |
| 30 | But before falling in love with Lucy , she was not the type to lie awake , miss meals , weep , miss work , lose weight , have eczema , fall asleep with the light and fire blazing , feel hopeless , feel that everything was more or less meaningless , be unable to cope . |