Example sentences of "she was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , she was the first person who made me realise that acting was more than just speaking and doing . |
| 2 | Anyway , she was the one who did the talking . |
| 3 | I told her she was the first person to see it since I started work on it . |
| 4 | A lot of them were pretending not to , but somehow she was the centre of an invisible circle . |
| 5 | She was the sort of woman to evoke poems , from Leonard not least , and lastingly . |
| 6 | H.D. , nicknamed ‘ the Hama-dryad ’ , is the subject of much high-spirited comedy in the letters that Ezra and Dorothy exchanged , and this ought to provoke second thoughts in those who want to take Hilda 's account at face-value : H.D. may have honestly persuaded herself that she was the great ( though virginal ) love of Pound 's life , but it 's unlikely that Pound thought so , nor need we . |
| 7 | Worse still , the central character dreams of ‘ making tender love to the Monarch … she was the body of Britain , the avatar of the State ’ . |
| 8 | There was no looking back ; I wanted to remember Fiona as she was the last time we met , standing in the doorway of the croft , her black hair blowing in the breeze as she waved me goodbye . |
| 9 | She was the self-conscious product of a grocer 's shop and a frugal Methodist background in Grantham in rural Lincolnshire . |
| 10 | I never really got to know her She was the most obtuse person I ever met . |
| 11 | We 'd played in St. Albans and I 'd met a girl there , Claire , She was the Social Secretary at the college who 'd booked us in to play . |
| 12 | She was the first British prime Minister to mount a sustained challenge to post-war consensus politics and , more than any other post-war Prime Minister , she is often regarded as a figure apart from her Cabinet . |
| 13 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 14 | In the second place she was naked not armed , she was lying not riding , and she was the heroine not the hero . |
| 15 | Soon he would need to vent the anger she felt already gathering , and she was the nearest person . |
| 16 | She was the centre of the table . |
| 17 | She was the only one who did n't keep up this nonsense about Nora being dead … |
| 18 | She was the best friend I ever had . |
| 19 | Then , without a pause , but with a sharp change of tone and inflexion , she was the starched , crisp , efficient Sister . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , she was the centre of attention at her own wedding , two years ago , at Auchterader House in Gleneagles , a Scottish country house hotel . |
| 21 | ‘ Does n't the Prime Minister realise that she is the only person in this whole shameful episode that ca n't make the excuse that I was only obeying orders , because she was the person giving the orders — and the orders are tyrannical . ’ |
| 22 | She was the widow of Norman Manley , first Premier of Jamaica and the mother also of a then twice elected Prime Minister , Michael Manley . |
| 23 | Most memorably , in Hello Frisco Hello , ( 1943 ) , she was the upper crust lady who temporarily takes social-climber John Payne away from the saloon-singer Alice Faye . |
| 24 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 25 | ‘ No , no , she was the youngest by a good five years . |
| 26 | ‘ In the course of this process we have talked to Miss Morgan 's solicitor , who told us that she was the life tenant of a substantial estate , and that you are what they call the remainder-man . ’ |
| 27 | Equity treats her as if she was the unmarried owner of it ; it lets her dispose of it as she pleases in her lifetime , it lets her leave it by will , it even lets her make contracts which can be enforced against it , and against it only . |
| 28 | She was the departmental secretary , and she would bring papers for him to sign and take other papers back with her . |
| 29 | This insatiable hunger to know other people 's business alarmed her , for she was the least inquisitive of mortals . |
| 30 | She was the Becky Sharp of the cat world . |