Example sentences of "she [was/were] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she were the thunder , she thought , she would never speak to it again . |
| 2 | She looked down at him , piteously , as if she were the child . |
| 3 | It was as if she were the child , cornered and reasoned into giving an explanation , and Lucy the teacher with all of the patience and the pressure working for her . |
| 4 | Trust Claire to act as if she were the centre of attention . |
| 5 | The reader feels entertained , but in an excluded sort of way , rather as though he or she were the butler at a particularly lively dessert at Lincoln 's Inn . |
| 6 | She spoke , Ruth thought , as if she were the mistress of a large establishment in London instead of a country vicar 's wife in a remote Yorkshire dale . |
| 7 | And , as if she were the therapist and the journalist the patient , Eleanor ushered Valerie from the door . |
| 8 | She leaned across the table to Wickham as if she were the man facing MacQuillan . |
| 9 | He stood up , face scarlet , looking at her and speaking to her as though she were the whore he had called her . |
| 10 | Around her head were fantasms of imminence , the way she 'd win if she were the heroine . |
| 11 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 12 | Miss Honey was still gazing at the child in absolute wonderment , as though she were The Creation , The Beginning Of The World , The First Morning . |
| 13 | She was the tomboy , skinny in jeans and men 's waistcoats , the vulnerable yet tough girl in big frocks and bigger boots and not afraid to expose her body — she was frequently photographed without clothes . |
| 14 | Before her lay heaps of flowers — she was the beloved , the tended saint — dying gladioli , eternal silk blown roses , immortelles . |
| 15 | She was the epitome of fashionable glamour and , merely looking at her , Constance felt swamped . |
| 16 | I really did , of course she was the nurse came in , first it was the doctor , |
| 17 | First of all they said she was the villain . |
| 18 | She wanted to help him , but how could she when she was the problem ? |
| 19 | ‘ Does n't the Prime Minister realise that she is the only person in this whole shameful episode that ca n't make the excuse that I was only obeying orders , because she was the person giving the orders — and the orders are tyrannical . ’ |
| 20 | She was the midwife , nurse and layer-out of bodies . |
| 21 | She was the girl with everything — fame , riches and most of all the undiluted love of her new husband — or so the world believed . |
| 22 | Now she comes forward , gets her publicity , tells the whole world about the swell way you treated her , thinking she was the girl friend of a dead pal , everybody likes her , everybody likes you . ’ |
| 23 | She was a girl ; she was the girl who had sung ‘ I Ca n't Stop Crying . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ She 's like she was the day she had Apricot , ’ said Rhoda . |
| 25 | She had a boy — oh , no , she was the day before , and Anne — no , she was the day after — it 's very difficult — ’ |
| 26 | She had a boy — oh , no , she was the day before , and Anne — no , she was the day after — it 's very difficult — ’ |
| 27 | Then she brought his lips against hers again and kissed him long and lasciviously as if she was the man and he the woman … |
| 28 | Then he learnt that she was the man 's daughter , and frivolous thoughts were swept away on a tide of sympathy . |
| 29 | ‘ In the course of this process we have talked to Miss Morgan 's solicitor , who told us that she was the life tenant of a substantial estate , and that you are what they call the remainder-man . ’ |
| 30 | They met once on a date , nine years ago , and again when she was the make-up artist on Bad Influence , in 1988 . |