Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benny felt as if she were eight years of age again , instead of almost eighteen . |
| 2 | I 'm very lucky , ’ Susan repeated sternly , as though she were daring Breeze to disagree with her . |
| 3 | Settling back against the pillows , he drew her against him and , holding her as if she were egg-shell china , cradled her head on his chest . |
| 4 | She 's finally abandoned any fantasies that if she were five foot two and blonde , life as an actress might be easier . |
| 5 | She had no objection to working for her keep , but if Penry Vaughan went on treating her as if she were some kind of serf she 'd stick to plain , basic cooking from now on , she thought resentfully . |
| 6 | He released her , his fingers still loosely in the escaped strands of her hair , staring at her as blankly as if she were some phantom being from another incarnation , a mythical seductress beamed unexpectedly into the passenger seat of his car . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ If you must know , ’ Leith exploded , her anger turning to fury at the way he , with his ‘ two men at least ’ comment , had made it sound as though she were some tart , ‘ I had a bad experience in the last place I worked . ’ |
| 9 | I knew her for months before she admitted , in a low voice , what her job was — as if she were some sort of traitor to society . |
| 10 | After soaping her every nook and cranny , he rinsed her , and kissed her body reverently as if she were some deity to be worshipped and adored . |
| 11 | If she were several sizes larger she could have them . ’ |
| 12 | He could n't be sure she would have the heart to go on running racehorses if she were forced to believe Harry a murderer … if she thought he had left her without warning , without a note , if she were worried sick by not knowing where he 'd gone , and was also haunted by the thought of Harry with Angela Brickell . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And , he used to lean over bloody fence while she were digging garden and she were pregnant . |
| 15 | Miranda had remained quietly on the stool looking at her fat knees , as if she were happy doing so , until one of the shopgirls in costume jewellery leaned over the counter and said , through scarlet lips , ‘ Where 's your mummy gone to then ? ’ |
| 16 | Privately she was relieved Dauntless had refused to let Drago give them rattles . |
| 17 | Kelly would understand , of course , but she was many miles away , working on location , and Shae did n't even have a contact number . |
| 18 | like she was best friends with her . |
| 19 | She was stirring milk into the roux over a low heat when Annie finished her currants and announced , ‘ Wanta-wee , wanta-wee . ’ |
| 20 | From 1982–1990 she was Botanical Illustrator at the National Museum of Wales . |
| 21 | Going back slowly , a little at a time , it became evident that Sylvia 's fear of being closed in had originated very early indeed ; it was already established by the time she was one year old . |
| 22 | Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old . |
| 23 | This time , for once , she was one step ahead of him . |
| 24 | She failed , however , and Mr Jones grabbed her and shook her , demanding to know where she had been , and why she was two hours later than he had said coming home . |
| 25 | It was so deep this dislocation , this feeling that she was two people . |
| 26 | She was two weeks away from giving birth to their first child . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's right , ’ said Mildred , ‘ and I heard tell that she changed one girl into a frog because she was two seconds late for a lesson . |
| 28 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 29 | She was two years older so it was n't surprising . |
| 30 | When she was two years old she had seemed to be of a cheerful disposition and laughed obediently when he made a witch out of his knotted handkerchief or cast a swan 's shadow against her bedroom wall with his fingers . |