Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] she was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose she was the sort who would normally have been commissioned , but , all credit to her , she opted for the ranks and she was certainly finding out how the other half lived . |
| 2 | But I know from the jailers that she was tortured ! |
| 3 | She was picturing her daughter , her beloved Angel , and as the pony stepped daintily over the cobbles she was counting the minutes until she was with her for the first time in nearly six months . |
| 4 | She also suffered from arthritis in the wrists , the fingers and the ankles and she was unable to turn her head at all ; this was due to a car accident several years before when she had suffered from whiplash . |
| 5 | As Ben had pointed out last night , his Annie was scurrying between the looms when she was seven , and barefoot . |
| 6 | Speaker 11 was the white girl who , as speaker 2 speaking Creole , convinced most of the listeners that she was black . |
| 7 | Of , one of the words that she was talking about , people have started using wicked for a normal phrase . |
| 8 | Only Laura 's secure philosophy of family life enabled her to combine the roles because she was given school holidays and other crucial times off . |
| 9 | She had not , for example , seen Silence Of The Lambs because she was ‘ slightly horrified it would be too squeamish for me . ’ |
| 10 | The cancer had spread from the breast to various other areas including the bones and she was as a result suffering considerable pain which was not controlled by pain-killers . |
| 11 | You 'd all decided to meet again the following week and she counted the days because she was longing to be with you again . |
| 12 | Er , she was mainly one of the editors because she was erm , her father 's , you know she even inherited her father 's estate . |
| 13 | Another ex-Head Girl who now taught was Nellie Nixon , commonly called Nellie of the Knobbles because she was so thin that her muscles stood out . |
| 14 | my credulity when she wandered over the Moors and she was at death 's door , and she turned up at her cousins ' |
| 15 | It was entirely our responsibility and that evening to well past midnight Leon and I took her through the changes until she was satisfied that she knew the policy thoroughly . |
| 16 | The police investigation was sparked off in 1991 when a Sheffield woman made a detailed statement to police alleging abuse by the Hanbys while she was in their care as a child . |
| 17 | Second seed Amanda Coetzer of South Africa joined Martina Navratilova on the sidelines when she was beaten 7–6 6–2 by 17 year-old American Chanda Rubin . |
| 18 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 19 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps everything would change like the names once she was out of their net . |
| 21 | She was scared of what might be hiding in the shadows but she was terrified of her subconscious . |
| 22 | Certainly Premack 's findings are under this cloud since Sarah 's performance suffered considerably when in the presence of a trainer who did not know the answers that she was supposed to give , and it would seem natural to expect that the more broadbrush methods of the gestural teaching would be equally suspect . |
| 23 | You can see it 's , it 's quite short actually , and I do n't , I mean , she was n't that small , because you can tell by the , the rest of the , the size of the bodice and the length of the arms that she was n't as small as this dress would make her out to be . |
| 24 | Cos we did n't want the four , th the ladies that she was with they knew what was happening but nobody else knew |
| 25 | One of the ladies that she was talking about the dogs she said Freda you see . |
| 26 | She continued to work as Reporter for the Islands until she was locked out of her office and suspended by the Chief Executive in March 1990 . |
| 27 | The mare shied violently , jumping with a sudden jerk to the left with such force that Lucy 's boots slid from the stirrups and she was thrown to the ground . |
| 28 | She had to get her before she went through the gates and she was thankful for the bright moonlight . |
| 29 | I was lucky that she was in most of my lessons but the lessons that she was n't in I would sit with the other friends from Stonham Aspel . |
| 30 | She was not a party to the proceedings and she was not represented before the court . |