Example sentences of "she was [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She sat down on a very solid patio chair and knew she was living a nightmare . |
| 32 | But she was living a lie was n't she ? |
| 33 | You know , a very good example of this , that always sticks in my mind , telling me erm , that once she was analyzing a woman and er , a lot of the analysis was concerned with erm , conflicts , erm , relating to masturbation in childhood , and constantly felt that this was what the analysis seemed to have done , because the woman consistently denied this had ever happened . |
| 34 | She spoke rather absently for she was remembering a vase of stiff-looking artificial flowers of an unknown species , seen fleetingly in a funeral director 's window , which now overlaid her memory of the bright Kensington shops and brought her back to the reality of her life in North London . |
| 35 | She was wearing a mixture of clothes that should not have gone very well together , but they did . |
| 36 | She was wearing a navy blue duffel coat with a tartan-lined hood , black stockings and pointed shoes with very high heels . |
| 37 | She was wearing a fur hood and a Melton cloth coat with a huge fur collar . |
| 38 | She was wearing a man 's woollen dressing-gown : the sleeves were too long for her and although she kept rolling them up , they fell down again almost immediately , shedding a little , grey storm of cigarette ash . |
| 39 | She was wearing a man 's sweater back to front , and under her hair — cut high and short now at the back — there was a triangle of white skin as soft and fresh as a newly broken bread-roll . |
| 40 | As she heaved herself up against the pillows she discovered she was wearing a man 's shirt , extra-large and striped , and she 'd never seen that before , either . |
| 41 | She was wearing a halter top thing that tied round the back of her neck . |
| 42 | She was wearing a halter dress the colour of flame that had wilted in the first hour . |
| 43 | I saw Sybil on ‘ Top of the Pops ’ the day before I started work on the book and she was wearing a gold bra top , huge fake-gold earrings and black trousers pulled in at the waist . |
| 44 | She was wearing a plaid dressing-gown that her Dad had left behind : it smelled like an old dog and was as scratchy and heavy as wearing a carpet . |
| 45 | She was wearing a jade green velour ‘ leisure suit ’ and her blonde hair was twisted up in a knot on top of her head . |
| 46 | She was wearing a dressing-gown , but it was hanging open , and underneath she only had a négligé on , one of those flimsy things , I could see everything . |
| 47 | Her marriage was on the rocks , she had had a breakdown , her social life was in ruins and yet when she came to ask for his help she was wearing a sweatshirt which had the slogan on it , ‘ Christ is the answer ’ . |
| 48 | She was wearing a dress that fitted like a snake 's skin , and looked like one , too . |
| 49 | She was wearing a robe against the cold , her hair in two pigtails that made her look curiously vulnerable . |
| 50 | She was wearing a dressing gown and pyjamas . |
| 51 | She was wearing a dressing gown with a pattern of Chinese dragons . |
| 52 | She opened the door ; she was wearing a dressing gown . |
| 53 | She was wearing a groove in her thumb . |
| 54 | She was wearing a sarong and several garlands of flowers . |
| 55 | She was wearing a school uniform with white blouse and black shoes when she disappeared . |
| 56 | Primaflora was absent when he arrived at the villa and when she returned , an hour later , she was wearing a girdle and a left sleeve he had never seen before , and a jewelled coif with a curled feather in it . |
| 57 | Had everyone fooled for a time , but she was wearing a body stocking . |
| 58 | She was wearing a taffeta skirt of burgundy , with a pretty close-fitting cream blouse that complimented her rich chestnut hair and dark eyes . |
| 59 | The phone was in the crook of her neck ; she was wearing a scarab ring on her wedding finger and used the thumb and little finger of the same hand to twitch it back and forth across the knuckle . |
| 60 | She was wearing a channel seam donkey coat , split level knees in purple and tartan loon shoes . |