Example sentences of "she [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mrs Tremayne did all she could , but she were a bit too possessive . |
| 32 | Mind you , I think she were a bit frugal with truth when she said that first lad she 'd gone with and she got pregnant . |
| 33 | Now , she were a bit upset cos I bought her dinner and that , and she were were n't too happy cos I paid her bus fare . |
| 34 | How much easier it would be if she were a newspaper reporter , like Tracey , she thought . |
| 35 | She prided herself on her strength — and yet this man , who had already proven he could stand up to her verbally , was holding her off as she if she were a feather . |
| 36 | Each seemingly fond gesture had wound her up until now she felt as though she were a prisoner in a cell , wondering what her torturer had in mind for her next . |
| 37 | Then she drank a glass of water and felt it trickle slowly down inside her as if she were a pipe . |
| 38 | She walked as if she were a queen . |
| 39 | ‘ She would be in the room and he would dismiss her with a flick of the hand as though she were a servant . ’ |
| 40 | She were a kind person . |
| 41 | I gaped at the speaker as if she were a mirage . |
| 42 | It became such a tame pet afterwards that she could never persuade it to play dead again , even if she grabbed it as though she were a predator . |
| 43 | Pretending she were a dog ! |
| 44 | She then sought a fair rent , which she could only do if she were a tenant , but Mr Street of course argued that she was only a licensee . |
| 45 | ‘ If she were a President , she 'd be Baberahm Lincoln ’ is one of the quips about Claudia Schiffer in Wayne 's World . |
| 46 | She were a nutter . |
| 47 | But its treatment of sexuality and violence , its treatment of the single working woman as if she were a virus ( which is then set as polar opposite against the ‘ healthy ’ family unit ) tends to position rigidly the spectator ( Williamson 1988 ) . |
| 48 | But , as her shirt grew soaked in sweat , she was obliged to edge nearer Angel , who looked at her as if she were a tarantula . |
| 49 | when Richard was staying she went in middle of us and she was , she were a lot more comfortable , than what she is when she 's in her own room |
| 50 | On the one hand , he sensed the anger of the island and its hot spirits if the powerful enchantress died ( for so he saw her ) ; he attempted to exorcise this fear with prayer and readings from the Bible , sometimes aloud to the uncomprehending heathen girl who tended the hag as if she were a lover . |
| 51 | He undressed her slowly and with infinite gentleness , as if she were a peach he could not bear to bruise , and then guided her shaking hands as she undressed him . |
| 52 | Given our human circumstances , it is extremely difficult for any human observer to investigate a member of his own species as if he or she were a creature of nature , out there , on the other side of the plate glass . |
| 53 | It was possible for a middle-class reader to sympathise with a girl , even if she were a countess , when she entered upon the search for an ancient royal treasure in a thoroughly youthful way , or with a boy who , even if he were a king or at the least a count in eclipse , faced danger and responsibility with the doubts and the dutiful idealism of a public-school upbringing . |
| 54 | So cold and unfeeling ; Eileen could n't have imagined anyone behaving in her own son 's home as if she were a stranger , making small talk and occasionally bestowing a few words on her daughter-in-law . |
| 55 | When she spoke , he turned his head slowly , gazing at her as if she were a stranger . |
| 56 | At least when he was condemning her he was reacting to her , personally and subjectively ; now he was treating her as if she were a stranger . |
| 57 | He jerked her again , as if she were a rag doll , eyeing her with disgust . |
| 58 | If she were a pet dog or cat , you would take her to a vet . |
| 59 | I could tell she was a user . |
| 60 | She was a law unto herself and did what she wanted to do . |