Example sentences of "she was a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a right good-looker . |
| 2 | ‘ She was a right goer , I can tell you . |
| 3 | Before that she was a divisional director in Berkshire and assistant director in Reading County Borough . |
| 4 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
| 5 | Angelica reckoned that she was a reasonable judge of people — one could hardly be a nurse for twenty years without picking up one hell of a lot of insight — and it had n't taken her long to decide that Alina Peterson was either dead straight or very plausible . |
| 6 | She was a reasonable swimmer . |
| 7 | She was a reasonable woman , and he knew that she liked him . |
| 8 | She was a strange child . |
| 9 | She was a strange child , and often talked to herself like this . |
| 10 | She was a working girl , and proud of it , and she intended to stay that way … |
| 11 | She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image , perhaps because her squeaky little girl voice operated to remind us all along that she was a Working Girl rather than Woman . |
| 12 | She was a working ship , like all the ships of her line . |
| 13 | She was a working class woman on her own , looking for that big break . |
| 14 | But then , essentially she was a young girl still , the daughter of a grocer who had ruined her with discipline ; a girl bursting with suppressed sexuality and fun . |
| 15 | Her father died when she was a young girl , and her mother re-married a Mr. Hanmer who was a staunch Royalist . |
| 16 | Then as she knitted she began to relate her life story from when she was a young girl . |
| 17 | ‘ In view of the fact she was a young girl and the lacerations were right across the cheek I decided she needed plastic surgery . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ In view of the fact she was a young girl and the lacerations were right across the cheek I decided she needed plastic surgery . ’ |
| 19 | Again he had the impression that she was a young girl , for there was a smoothness about her skin that one sees in the young before the face reaches the border of adulthood . |
| 20 | The wife-to-be was adopted into the family of the husband-to-be when she was a young girl . |
| 21 | And he went on in English and in the manner of his ‘ Jottings ’ : ‘ How many generations ago , when she was a young girl , might she have sat for Pietro and become his Madonna della Misericordia ? |
| 22 | She was nervous and excited all at once just as if she was a young girl going to her first ball . ’ |
| 23 | The shoes she had when she was a young girl . |
| 24 | Mrs Marston actually came to the town on the Bishop 's Castle Railway with her parents when she was a young girl , and when we formed the BCRS she told us that it is difficult to see how they could have made the move , complete with furniture , in any other way in those days . |
| 25 | At least I 've never heard him and I do n't think Aunt Alicia ever did , but when she was a young girl , they had trouble with servants who were always getting worked up about him . |
| 26 | Nancy signed the pledge when she was a young girl and did n't touch a drop of alchohol until she was in her nineties . |
| 27 | Now she was a young widow , dignified but vulnerable , busy but not tastelessly careerist ; she believed that she always put her family first . |
| 28 | The woman went on to say that the social worker had written down what her husband had told her to because she was frightened of him , and because she was a young nit-wit from college no more capable of understanding the wily ways of men like her husband than she could fly . |
| 29 | Me Grandad told me , He said she was real lively when she was a young lass , before her bloke ran off … . ’ |
| 30 | She was a young woman . |