Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adj] then " in BNC.
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| 1 | She were six then . |
| 2 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 3 | Well Nat woke up at , half past one , she was awake then all night she kept coming in |
| 4 | ‘ She was eighteen then , a lovely girl , with beautiful skin , long curling black hair , and fine black eyes which shone as brightly as her jewels . |
| 5 | He spoke bitterly of the way she left him for another man , a student , when she was 16 then humiliated him by giving intimate details of their affair to the press . |
| 6 | Hurt that he could think she would do that pest of an interview through Lubor , she was certain then that she did n't even like Ven Gajdusek — much less was she attracted to him ! |
| 7 | See they build her up with this blood and she was alright then , you see . |
| 8 | ‘ She was frightened then , and so , in the end , she agreed to do what I wanted , and leave La Tour Monchauzet forever . ’ |
| 9 | She was twenty then , a pretty , dark girl with curly hair and an Irish brogue . ’ |
| 10 | if she was twenty then |
| 11 | She was wrong then . |
| 12 | She was surprised then to hear him say : |
| 13 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 14 | She was thirty-one then , and married a man called Thomas Quiney , who was twenty-six . |
| 15 | She was worried then that the attacker might strike again . |