Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we get two things , we get a very good new personality , and secondly , an intelligent personality , and , therefore , and this is an important part of the strategy , she gets out of the other archaeologists she 's talking to a much higher level of interaction and intellectual interchange than she would if she were simply a standard presenter . |
| 2 | She knew he was speaking to her as if she were either an idiot or a child but the momentary fight had quite gone and she just nodded , looking up at him . |
| 3 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |
| 4 | This came out so comically that they both began to laugh together , Neil putting his book down , and McAllister whooping into the apron which she had thrown over her head at his last sally , as though she were truly the skivvy she pretended to be . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You have never got out of the childish habit of trying to do several things at once , ’ Sally had said to her once ; Sally , so cool , so contained , so efficient she sometimes made Harriet feel as if she were still a child , though of course she would never admit it . |
| 7 | That night her father sat on the edge of her bed and stroked her hair , as if she were still a little girl . |
| 8 | If she were still a person . |
| 9 | She had thrown herself into his arms and hugged him as if she were still a schoolgirl . |
| 10 | [ PAMELA begins to serve them with wine as if she were still a servant . ] |
| 11 | It was already beginning to feel as if the last four years had never happened ; as if she were still the confused , angry , raw-nerved girl she had been when he had finally walked out on her . |
| 12 | Jo figured that her mother was probably a nympho — after all , it took one to know one and Jo thought she was probably a nympho herself . |
| 13 | No I think she was probably a nervous kind of person |
| 14 | She was probably the only person who ever got the better of Flynn in a fight . |
| 15 | She was probably the only thing alive in it . |
| 16 | It was no comfort at all to know she was probably the only female in existence who did n't thrill to its rich , deep tones , who was left completely unmoved by its huskily sensual undertones . |
| 17 | On the last occasion he had seen his mother , which was when he came down to Plumford for lunch at Easter , he had thought that to all outward appearances she was exactly the same as she had always been . |
| 18 | " She was exactly the same as she is now , but she took the trouble to hide the fact . |
| 19 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |
| 20 | He comforted himself by assuming that she was just a mother-figure to the young man and there could n't possibly be any sex in it . |
| 21 | If she was just a pop star she would not be able to do it , ’ said Mel Bush . |
| 22 | Henry would sob , ‘ she was just a quiet , ordinary housewife … ’ |
| 23 | Nutty had done it , for God 's sake , and she was just a fat girl ( well , not so fat any longer , but still a girl ) . |
| 24 | But he merely looked embarrassed and said : ‘ Oh — hi ! ’ as he passed as if she was just a casual acquaintance . |
| 25 | Having taken Joyce gently back through her childhood , we reached a time when she was just a toddler . |
| 26 | She was just a fact of life . |
| 27 | Her earliest memory was of him holding her tightly by the hand , when she was just a toddler , in case she strayed too near the rushing river . |
| 28 | She was just a girl with a sweet smile and a pretty face , her hair drawn back into some kind of fishnet behind . |
| 29 | To her country , to her Embassy , she was just a cipher , a functionary , a unit of assassination , to be dispensed with when its use was extinguished . |
| 30 | The Nicholsons do know that Natasha 's young mother dumped her illegitimate daughter in an orphanage when she was just a month old . |