Example sentences of "she was [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was of a certain age , so mebbe her painting days are over . |
| 2 | She was of a nervous disposition , Miss Kilspindie . |
| 3 | By the next evening , she was of a different mind . |
| 4 | She was with a stranger and told friends that she intended to stay at the site as long as possible and then possibly go to Portsmouth . |
| 5 | said she was with a new husband |
| 6 | ‘ But she was with a young man … |
| 7 | The purely guilty nightmare might be illustrated in terms of sexual repression and guilt by Mary Baxter Eddy 's dream of being assaulted by a strange man while she was with a Christian Science congregation . |
| 8 | He was making her feel a bit strange again with his hand on her skin and she was at a decided disadvantage . |
| 9 | At a party in Soho in 1914 Epstein was talking to Beatrice , who made it clear that she was at a loose end in her life . |
| 10 | Three separate inquiries are underway into why a woman spectator died attending the demoliton of a block of flats in Glasgow , early reports suggest she WAS at a safe distance from the site of the blast . |
| 11 | Cos she was on a lay by |
| 12 | But once she was on a downward incline she could only run faster and faster , squawking with fury as she lost her balance , till she tripped over and fell in a tumble of feathers and feet . |
| 13 | She was on a long time . |
| 14 | It was a bigger race , she was on a better horse , maybe she had ridden with more coolness than usual thanks to the emergency prescription of Dr Cy McCray . |
| 15 | But , you see , she was on a real pardon me ! |
| 16 | But she was on a winning streak , a lucky wave ; she would nip down to the Gas Board and fix things up . |
| 17 | Cos we 're having , not problems , but at school it really it 's unfortunate because she was put in a third year , and she 's only a third year now and she was on a third year class last year . |
| 18 | They guessed she was on a bad trip and moved in swiftly before she could hurt herself . |
| 19 | Either something had happened to her or those two fivers had gone to her head and she was on a day-long spree . |
| 20 | They had met eight months before in Houston where she was on a promotional tour for her Budgie books . |
| 21 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 22 | Believe me , she was worth a million pound offer … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Six million if you do n't mind , ’ was Christy Turlington 's reply to designer Valentino 's suggestion that she was worth a million dollars . |
| 24 | As she was now she was worth a million , maybe ten . |
| 25 | She was French , her name was Joanne and she was from a well-respected French circus family . |
| 26 | As she was from a neighbouring Emirate which had a far less critical attitude toward the participation of women in education , Girl ‘ A ’ , it was discovered , had taught in an infant school after finishing her own schooling . |
| 27 | In January 1917 Lewis married Elsie Schneider in New York ; she was from a Jewish family . |
| 28 | ‘ She was until a short while ago , until she met your brother . ’ |
| 29 | She was in a new place where she had never been before . |
| 30 | cos she was in a new series not long afterwards was n't she ? |