Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then when she got it she was just sort of oh I 'm buying a house |
| 2 | Yeah , she was just sort of coming down the stairs yeah it 's alright , you know , had a word with her |
| 3 | At sixteen , she was also Queen of France . |
| 4 | She was also head of the botany department from 1890 to 1907 , and vice-principal of the college from 1898 to 1901 . |
| 5 | Wade will , of course , always be remembered for one special summer 's afternoon at the All England Club , but she was also world number two in 1975 and won the first-ever U.S. Open in 1968 . |
| 6 | Second in the Scottish Girls ' Under-21 Stroke-play Championship , she was also runner-up in the Daily Telegraph Junior Golfer of the Year tournament which she won in 1991 . |
| 7 | But by the end of the 1890s , although her work had long been recognized and she had been made a founder-councillor of the London county council in 1899 , Emma Cons was approaching a breakdown caused by overwork , not only at the theatre but in all her other housing and philanthropic efforts ( she was also vice-president of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage , an executive member of the Women 's Liberal Foundations , and a founder of the Women 's Horticultural College at Swanley ) . |
| 8 | Before the race , Mrs Munns judged the best turned-out horse , which she told me she was also doing for the first time . |
| 9 | She was formerly Director of the Information Centre of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland . |
| 10 | She was neither boy nor girl , neither old nor young . |
| 11 | She was clearly number one for Char . |
| 12 | She was previously Secretary for the Media Committee of the Netherlands Missionary Council . |
| 13 | ‘ Madeleine , Mrs Appleby is a person , not just a cook ; and in the days when I lived at Maythorpe House , she was enormously kind to me , ’ Harry said . |
| 14 | After ricocheting from one emotional moment to another today , she was now face to face with possible disaster . |
| 15 | She was now manager of Explorers Inn and gave all the new arrivals the same breezy , Californian smile of welcome . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , she had invariably done her best for her child as , indeed , she was now doing for her grandchild . |
| 17 | She was only half-committed to the new idea herself , not nearly as sure about it as she had made out to Nails — heaven knows how they would fit in all that training , teaching three boys to ride ! |
| 18 | Moreover , she had shown that , even if she was only regent and not queen , let alone king , she was , like the Stewart kings themselves , a formidable personality , all too able to impose her policies . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't be mad at her , though , she was only doing as I 'd asked . |
| 20 | She was there year after year . |
| 21 | So she was especially kind to Janice . |
| 22 | The day she could behave like a real bitch , thought Camille , would be the day she was truly adult , and she envisaged in anticipation the bodies of advertising executives and the makers of video films lying staring with sightless eyes at the city 's polluted skies , slain by the detailed revelations of her insight into their characters . |
| 23 | She was consistently kind to faded little Miss Fogerty and very willing to show her new methods of threading beads and making plasticine crumpets , explaining patiently , as she did so , the psychological implications behind these activities in words of three or , more often , four syllables . |
| 24 | She was always kind to me and she was the only neighbour Mum could really trust . |
| 25 | ‘ She was always kind at school , ’ said Lili . |
| 26 | Now she was safely east-north-east in her green canopy , her pale lips laughing at them all . |