Example sentences of "the [noun pl] that she was " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I know from the jailers that she was tortured ! |
| 2 | Speaker 11 was the white girl who , as speaker 2 speaking Creole , convinced most of the listeners that she was black . |
| 3 | Of , one of the words that she was talking about , people have started using wicked for a normal phrase . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Cos we did n't want the four , th the ladies that she was with they knew what was happening but nobody else knew |
| 7 | One of the ladies that she was talking about the dogs she said Freda you see . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ashi Nadirpur laid out the clothes that she was going to wear that day on the bed . |
| 10 | Her approach to academic seminars would seem to confirm some of the claims that she was totally out of her depth when it came to discussing the new discoveries which she had allegedly made . |
| 11 | After one year Charles suddenly divorced Desiderata on the grounds that she was barren and weak . |
| 12 | Gran kept her supplied with them , on the grounds that she was too thin . |
| 13 | having found themselves for no good reason sitting together : Liz and Alix discovered that both came from Yorkshire , and that neither played lacrosse , nor had ever seen it being played , and Esther joined the discussion by volunteering that she had herself managed to avoid playing netball for the past three years on the grounds that she was too small . |
| 14 | Laura , however , declined on the grounds that she was not nearly important enough to share the limelight with such august people . |
| 15 | Finally Catherine 's claims to be a genuine enlightened despot can be impugned , like those of Frederick II , on the grounds that she was merely carrying on policies inherited from her predecessors . |
| 16 | This kind of emphasis on the opposition between , rather than the complementary nature of , the active and contemplative lives was reflected in the patristic interpretation of the story of Martha and Mary ( Luke 10:38 — 42 ) in which Christ excuses Mary 's lack of active help in Martha 's household chores because she was listening to him , on the grounds that she was concentrating on that which was most essential . |
| 17 | He moved slowly up by the side of the bed , and now he said , ‘ Are … are you all right ? ’ and he saw the bedclothes that she was holding under her chin rise and fall with the movement of her neck before she said , ‘ Yes . |