Example sentences of "she [was/were] a woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a woman from an age quite different from Erika 's own ; separated by a gulf , a measureless chasm of experience distancing them each from the other as surely as though they were beings from two different planets . |
| 2 | Her distinctive combination of qualities — literary talent and experience of public service — combined with the fact that she was a woman , made her a natural . |
| 3 | She was a woman . |
| 4 | More specifically , an analysis of Scottish kingship , and of the particular reasons for its strength , enables us to discard the lingering idea that Mary 's failure was predetermined by the fact that she was a woman — and worse and more pathetic , a young woman . |
| 5 | She began travelling in earnest in 1927 when she was thirty-four ; later she crossed Persia , her long hair flowing , because she felt marginally safer from attack if bandits could see that she was a woman . |
| 6 | She was a woman in her mid-forties , he guessed . |
| 7 | She was a woman in need of a child to love , and having none of her own she was lavishing it all on Corrie Palmer , which was sad because in another year she would have to be returned to the hospital . |
| 8 | ‘ The picture of Liz on the sofa — she was a woman alone in a room ; as only God , I should have thought , could possibly have seen her . |
| 9 | She was a woman who had always been kept in comfort , had had no troubles to speak of , leaving all decisions to her husband . |
| 10 | She was a woman of fine physical strength , ready to go out on foot or in a canoe when called for . |
| 11 | Last birthday there had been a card from Gerry , written on shore leave and left with Mary for posting , yet now she was a woman alone . |
| 12 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 13 | Win Morgan smiled with a flash of humour that was rare because she was a woman grown old before her time , worn by the constant pain of her bone ache and wearied by the persistent cough that racked her . |
| 14 | Not so long ago she had been loved and cherished with the world at her feet , now she was a woman alone . |
| 15 | There was a little flabbiness in her lower belly , because she was a woman and not a girl , but she had a tight waist . |
| 16 | She was a woman who trusted her senses , and to discover them so deceptive distressed her . |
| 17 | The kind of friends she had were loyal by definition , and they liked her , in their eyes she was a woman who could do no wrong ( she was only separated , mind , not divorced ) , they were ready to do any thing for her and when she would not let them they did it for the girl . |
| 18 | Kate was a woman in every sense of the word , and she was a woman who would not give herself to a man lightly . |
| 19 | She was a woman of mixed awkwardness and determination . |
| 20 | She was a woman with a young body whose knowledge , biological and intellectual , was defined in clearly marked periods , menstrual , domestic , academic , rounds of flesh , blood , rites , qualifications . |
| 21 | She was a woman with many needs . |
| 22 | And she was a woman . |
| 23 | Women never are , and she was a woman who had experienced more of life than her years would contain . |
| 24 | She was a woman without vision or curiosity ; her distaste for books was equalled only by her dislike of people . |
| 25 | He did not try to be difficult because she was a woman . |
| 26 | She understood its meaning because she was a woman now . |
| 27 | While Mrs Drubb , with no more explanation than that she was a woman now and had better keep well away from men , had then scolded her for upsetting her mother . |
| 28 | What a damn shame , he thought , what a tragedy that she was a woman instead of what she ought to have been . |
| 29 | No longer a girl with a headful of hazy dreams , she was a woman now . |
| 30 | She was a woman alone , making as best she might a terrible virtue of her solitude . |