Example sentences of "she was [art] [noun] she " in BNC.
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1 | If she was a witch she would be good at that , too . |
2 | ‘ You know what ? ’ he giggled , ‘ when she was a kid she used to think that cockerels laid pot eggs . ’ |
3 | ‘ When she was a child she was a pretty little thing . |
4 | Since she was a schoolgirl she 's dreamed of owning shops . |
5 | When she was a youngster she was forever going up the long path through the convent kitchen gardens , past the briars and brambles and peering in its windows . |
6 | Emecheta insisted that although she was a girl she wanted an education and managed to get a scholarship to the Methodist Girls ' High School . |
7 | Well if she was a vegan she would n't eat cheese . |
8 | Nobody needed to tell her she was a sinner she confessed it openly ! |
9 | Even when she was a politician she let potential voters fondle her breasts on the hustings ( her politics are a sexually-liberated shade of Green : she is in favour of love hotels and the environment ) . |
10 | When she was a teenager she used to go round wearing a blanket with a hole cut in it for her head . |
11 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
12 | ‘ She 's like she was the day she had Apricot , ’ said Rhoda . |
13 | I do n't know why she was the way she was just before that young blighter with the placard made Blazer rear up , but she was n't ill and she was n't drunk , got that ? ’ |
14 | He had chosen this woman specifically because she was the sort she was — a simple type , immediately responsive to the baby , no outside involvements , so she was free to give her entire time to him , willing to do without time off while the baby was still on the breast , and not expecting the massive salary most women would want for a job like this . |
15 | But what really astonished her was the way she had responded to him just now in her office . |