Example sentences of "she [was/were] a child " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ There , there , ’ he said , as if she were a child herself . |
| 6 | Ruth felt small and insecure , as if she were a child again . |
| 7 | She could not escape the thought that she felt exactly as if she were a child being taken out for a treat by a kindly uncle . |
| 8 | He did kiss her , on her forehead , and then stroked her hair gently , as if she were a child or a kitten . |
| 9 | You even talk to a woman as if she were a child . |
| 10 | Penry ushered her into the kitchen , unzipping her jacket as though she were a child . |
| 11 | She looked so like my daughter did at her age , and the pleasure she gave me compensated for the lack of time I had with her mother when she was a child . |
| 12 | I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops . |
| 13 | When asked what she wanted to be when she was a child , she admits : ‘ Probably famous , like every other kid . |
| 14 | It had lain here since she was a child . |
| 15 | She was a child at the time . |
| 16 | It was a song she had known since she was a child and she 'd heard her mother sing it a thousand times . |
| 17 | Miss Barbary 's servant , a harsh , unsympathetic woman who acted as Esther Summerson 's nurse when she was a child . |
| 18 | When she was a child , she had invited her to stay . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's all I 've got in life , ’ her mother replied , with that wide and tolerant , devious and undefeatable smile that had enslaved Lee when she was a child . |
| 20 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 21 | She was a child |
| 22 | She was a child , he should have thought about what would happen when she went through the usual adolescent trials . |
| 23 | When she was a child Liza had called the place the Secret Cove . |
| 24 | Philip guided her by the arm into the front entrance and the hall , where a frightening array of girls in uniforms with white aprons and the cook , whom Eileen had known since she was a child , came up one by one and greeted them . |
| 25 | She was sure he had told her the story of the Moon and the Crocodile when she was a child , but she could n't remember it . |
| 26 | When she was a child , Ginny Salperton followed the forms of religion that her school and to a lesser extent her parents laid down for her . |
| 27 | Left : This Welsh dresser is in the second kitchen , which used to be Elizabeth Jane 's nursery when she was a child . |
| 28 | She had never been very obedient in other areas of her life but in the tube she was a child again , learning , wary , and without that presence which had always been there in her childhood . |
| 29 | With the same end in view , no doubt , he called her ‘ Molly Coddle ’ — a name he had never thought to use when she was a child — and he insisted on changing the sex of his grandchildren so that Henrietta became Henry or Hal , Samantha was naturally Sam , and the three-year-old Jacqueline ‘ Jack the Lad ’ . |
| 30 | She was a child who felt very strongly . |