Example sentences of "she [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she been a complete fool ? she wondered . |
| 2 | Had she been a foreign agent , she could not have done it better . |
| 3 | For a man to say that Galadriel was an angel , for instance , might then seem natural enough.s Would she be a fallen angel ? |
| 4 | If she were a sixteen-year-old it would be understandable . |
| 5 | ‘ Sit down , ’ he repeated , his tone gentling her as though she were a wounded animal . |
| 6 | She were a fine-looking animal , and she 'd always give us trouble — but she could n't help it , poor owd gel . |
| 7 | Now her self-confidence fled as he raised his hat , gazing at her as if she were a total stranger . |
| 8 | She prowled and paused and placed her feet carefully , all as if she were a normal feline , but there was something woefully uncatlike about her performance . |
| 9 | Furious at being treated as if she were a brainless bimbo , she raised her eyebrows , giving him back such a measured look that he actually coloured a little and moved away . |
| 10 | The nurse looked at her as if she were a new species from a different planet . |
| 11 | If she were a good spit and-polish balabosteh like her Aunt Minna , where would I be now ? |
| 12 | She smiled at the few women clustered at the counter and acknowledged their somewhat surprised greetings , and was enormously grateful to Frank Green , the owner , for treating her as if she were a regular and valued customer instead of a virtual stranger . |
| 13 | On the instant , as if she were a hot coal , his hands dropped away from her . |
| 14 | The youths , being Moslems , were not having this from any woman , even if she were a great lady , and things would have gone ill for Zeinab if Owen had not arrived at that moment , on his way to her flat . |
| 15 | Yet he would cosset Rebecca as if she were a tender plant that needed nurturing . |
| 16 | In such a situation of role confusion and role strains a person at the end of the line is not disposed to react to new policy initiatives from above as if he or she were a mere functionary . |
| 17 | Alex turned to her and spoke each word loudly and clearly as if she were a subnormal child . |
| 18 | Not many women reach her years and have as much — for everything he can imagine her wanting he hastens to provide ; and it is bestowed as if she were a young and lovely creature at her first ball , and when he helps her down the stairs or into a taxi — for she is getting frail — he turns her into Gloriana . |
| 19 | And he was sure Blanche shared his opinion : she was squinting at the TV presenter as if she were a small but fascinating object in a museum . |
| 20 | His coat fronts were pulled about her while he nursed her as though she were a small child . |
| 21 | He no longer resented her ; he spoke to her as if she were a human being and was occasionally seen smiling . |
| 22 | She had to keep up this act until well into old age ; there was a tacit understanding that her decline should be ignored , and that poems , tributes and honours of all kinds should still be heaped upon her as though she were a beautiful young Princess . |
| 23 | She were a beautiful bay mare with feet like butcher 's blocks . |
| 24 | That he could sit there so calmly , issuing orders as if she were a naughty schoolgirl , simply beggared belief . |
| 25 | ‘ She were a big stroppolin' mawther [ girl ] . ’ |
| 26 | But her mother , who was hostile to facts , had gone on entertaining for her as if she were a chaste child just emerging from school . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh aye , she were a gradely lass , were our ‘ Ilda . |
| 28 | In the warm water of the square , sunken marble tub , Adam lay beside Miranda ; he soaped her body as though she were a royal baby . |
| 29 | She stared up at him in puzzlement and when she blinked , he suddenly drew her to him as though she were a beloved doll . |
| 30 | She stood there and stared at herself , seeing herself from that unexpected angle , as though she were another person , as though she were a dim white and blue statue on a tall pillar , a wet statue , a statue in water , a Venus rising from the sea , with veined white marble globes for breasts . |