Example sentences of "she [was/were] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff loves it ; he strokes his hand over her head as if she were a child . |
| 2 | One of them would come and talk to me as I sat beside Aunt Louise , and discuss her with me as if she were a child . |
| 3 | I led her upstairs , took off her wet clothes , bathed and dried her ; she accepting my ministrations automatically , as if she were a child and I her mother . |
| 4 | He shook her as if she were a puppy . |
| 5 | She did n't know how it happened , but she found herself in Mrs Lennox 's arms , who comforted her as though she were a child . |
| 6 | Jeanne looks , in a faded photograph , as if she were a Modigliani model . |
| 7 | They were all having a packet of chips and fish — whoever fetched them I do n't know , cos they were all up for a good age : tell you , she were a hundred just in St Patrick 's Day . |
| 8 | The typical tone of memory , however , is very different from this : a special sense of love , even devotion , in the grandchild for a wonderful old lady : ‘ I treated her as me mother ’ , as an abandoned farm-child sent over from Ireland put it ; or a motherless Bolton spinner 's son — ‘ she were a love … |
| 9 | Six pounds was a lot of money for a schoolteacher to lose even if she were a headmistress . |
| 10 | She prowled and paused and placed her feet carefully , all as if she were a normal feline , but there was something woefully uncatlike about her performance . |
| 11 | He no longer resented her ; he spoke to her as if she were a human being and was occasionally seen smiling . |
| 12 | The nurse looked at her as if she were a new species from a different planet . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When Ma had come home from London with her there 'd been great excitement , and Edward and his brother Billy had looked at the mite as if she were a fairy found among the budding snowdrops . |
| 15 | ‘ There , there , ’ he said , as if she were a child herself . |
| 16 | She were a nutter . |
| 17 | Alex turned to her and spoke each word loudly and clearly as if she were a subnormal child . |
| 18 | It is inexcusable to talk to a mature adult as if he or she were a rather dull child . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Not many women reach her years and have as much — for everything he can imagine her wanting he hastens to provide ; and it is bestowed as if she were a young and lovely creature at her first ball , and when he helps her down the stairs or into a taxi — for she is getting frail — he turns her into Gloriana . |
| 21 | She walked as if she were a queen . |
| 22 | At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes . |
| 23 | She had to keep up this act until well into old age ; there was a tacit understanding that her decline should be ignored , and that poems , tributes and honours of all kinds should still be heaped upon her as though she were a beautiful young Princess . |
| 24 | Mrs Tremayne did all she could , but she were a bit too possessive . |
| 25 | She was to stay with her sister until Isobel decided definitely whether to remain in Tollemarche or return to England , and occasionally she became a little bored and was glad of Hank 's lively company , though to her annoyance , he treated her as if she were a ten-year-old . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ She would be in the room and he would dismiss her with a flick of the hand as though she were a servant . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ If she were a President , she 'd be Baberahm Lincoln ’ is one of the quips about Claudia Schiffer in Wayne 's World . |
| 30 | I gaped at the speaker as if she were a mirage . |