Example sentences of "she was a [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a young and sensitive girl growing up , and she found things too much for her . ’ |
| 2 | In committee she was a doughty and sometimes intimidating fighter . |
| 3 | His lawyer could argue that , while she was a loving and competent mother , other circumstances should be considered . |
| 4 | She was a successful and sought-after actress , happily married to professional footballer Lee Chapman and she was expecting their first , much-wanted child . |
| 5 | She was a Muslim and he was pretending to be one . |
| 6 | It was a film made some years ago in black and white , but , despite the difficulty of watching it in a foreign language , the power of the drama gripped them both , Sarella because she was a professional and was impressed by the intensity of the acting , and Marc because it seemed to strike some deep chord within him . |
| 7 | And I 'll have to get a two look , cos she was a thirteen and a half so I bought a one . |
| 8 | He took his revenge by telling himself that she was a cruel and wicked woman to let his father die in that dreadful place . |
| 9 | She was a prim and proper little Fraulein , although her father was the villain , and Carruthers loved her , but dared not speak to her without a chaperone . |
| 10 | She was a good and generous person . |
| 11 | At the same time , away from the competitive baize , she was a loyal and warm-hearted personality . |
| 12 | It did not strike her , for she was a modest and , on the whole , an outward-looking woman , that she had never been anything but kind to Alida Thorne . |
| 13 | She was a popular and conscientious teacher , whose optional courses on women 's writing were oversubscribed . |
| 14 | She was a vibrant and passionate woman who had revealed the intensity of her love for him up on the moors . |
| 15 | Strongly influenced by her devout grandmother , Frances Lumley , she was a studious and introspective child quite different from her flamboyant older sister Constance . |
| 16 | She was a jealous and overly possessive woman who would have loathed anyone her brother had married . |
| 17 | She was a beautiful and intelligent woman in her late twenties , had worked as Jamie 's secretary at Swift , and knew the family very well . |
| 18 | She was a younger and , nowadays , a more vibrant version of Elizabeth . |
| 19 | She was a forceful and charismatic speaker , and her avowal in a July 1936 radio broadcast on the outbreak of the Civil War that " Fascism shall not pass , the executioners of October shall not pass [ no pasarán ] " became a battle cry for the Republican forces . |
| 20 | She was a pretty and vivacious brunette , who had been trained as a dancer . |