Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [art] [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was a teenager she used to follow me everywhere . |
| 2 | I 'm pretty sure that I was the reason she left the big house , though I had n't actually been born then . ’ |
| 3 | Which was a thought she did n't want to stop and analyse . |
| 4 | Pleased and strangely girlish , which was a feeling she had not had in a very long time . |
| 5 | Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine . |
| 6 | She might have gone on listening forever , but for her rage , which was the legend she trailed . |
| 7 | He eyed Fenella uncertainly and Fenella , who was becoming impatient , said , ‘ Well , for heaven 's sake — ’ which was an expression she had picked up from Snizort and Snodgrass and which was as meaningless as most of their expressions , but descriptive of strong emotion . |
| 8 | Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are . |
| 9 | You 're the baby she had adopted ! |
| 10 | ‘ You were the man she answered the door to , ’ he said glumly . |
| 11 | Now Ruth of course , she 's a , she 's a Moabite she 's not a Jewess . |
| 12 | She 's a scream she loves doing this kind of thing , does n't she , |
| 13 | ‘ If she 's a model she has to expect to model dresses . ’ |
| 14 | She is being asked to bear adult responsibilities but , because she is a child she is not , at the same time , granted any of the privileges of adulthood . |
| 15 | Well not all the time , nobody 's right all the time , but she is a right she is right a lot of the time Jonathan because some of them children misbehave |
| 16 | For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants . |
| 17 | If she was a witch she would be good at that , too . |
| 18 | ‘ You know what ? ’ he giggled , ‘ when she was a kid she used to think that cockerels laid pot eggs . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ When she was a child she was a pretty little thing . |
| 20 | Since she was a schoolgirl she 's dreamed of owning shops . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Emecheta insisted that although she was a girl she wanted an education and managed to get a scholarship to the Methodist Girls ' High School . |
| 23 | Well if she was a vegan she would n't eat cheese . |
| 24 | Nobody needed to tell her she was a sinner she confessed it openly ! |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | When she was a teenager she used to go round wearing a blanket with a hole cut in it for her head . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ She 's like she was the day she had Apricot , ’ said Rhoda . |
| 29 | 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 ? ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |