Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought swam into her mind out of nowhere and she felt vaguely guilty when she realised it was a great relief to have this excuse . |
| 2 | She sighed as she realised it was a Californian bedroom , wooden floors and a window the length of one wall overlooking trees and a river , on a hilltop . |
| 3 | It was the way she liked to work , and , watching him , she realised he was a master at it . |
| 4 | When she realized I was a good thief and knew how to use a knife , she got to like me . |
| 5 | She might be growing to detest the man more with every passing second , but she doubted there was a woman alive who could deny his sheer male beauty , or fail to be drawn to it on the most basic level . |
| 6 | But she found it was a different school with different faces . |
| 7 | Unfolding the notice , she found it was a call to Italian women to demonstrate at the NATO base where the camp had been set up . |
| 8 | Now she found there was a window-catch ; she slid it aside and her feet whispered out to the balustrade , scarcely touching the ground . |
| 9 | He uttered a short sharp bark , which made Rosie jump ; she assumed it was a cough , then realised that it was intended as an expression of amusement . |
| 10 | When she saw a curtain move in one of the palace windows , she believed it was a signal of love from the King . |
| 11 | She noticed I was a bit green from the sickness . |
| 12 | In my class of infants , a little five-year-old girl was busy drawing what she told me was a ‘ picture of God ’ . |
| 13 | She guessed it was a briefcase . |
| 14 | She discovered she was a split second too late in making a hurried scramble to get off the bed , because , in the next instant , Naylor was there with her , pinning her down with his body . |
| 15 | When she finished there was a second 's silence , then the warmth of the company expressed itself in a burst of applause . |
| 16 | She decided he was a good deal more accomplished than the people he served . |
| 17 | She thought it was a kind of prison . |
| 18 | As she blacked out , she thought it was a pity she had n't gotten round to finishing the Christmas decorations . |
| 19 | At first she thought it was a burst of panic , which did n't surprise her , knowing what a coward she was . |
| 20 | She thought she would have to hold on extremely tightly if they were to go any faster , but she thought it was a thrilling , intoxicating sensation to be borne along like this . |
| 21 | ‘ Please , Rosa , tell me again , about how she walked in the water , but it was a mirror and they looked at her , she did n't know it was a mirror , she thought it was a stream . |
| 22 | She thought it was a huge joke . |
| 23 | She thought it was a gun , the lawyer said . |
| 24 | she took that out in the , in the same year as we started the mortgage , she thought it was a good idea to take some extra saving . |
| 25 | Well she did n't persuade me but she said she thought it was a very good idea because it was on all the new sets and while I was buying a new set I might as well |
| 26 | well she thought it was a bit peculiar then , luckily she either got Mr or |
| 27 | And in fact what I did do was erm went and bought her a secondhand wardrobe , took it to her , and she was really pleased because apparently she thought it was a better one than the first one . |
| 28 | But — and this was the real divide between them — she thought she was a Muslim . |
| 29 | She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity . |
| 30 | She thought he was a chimney-sweep . |