Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [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 | ‘ You were the man she answered the door to , ’ he said glumly . |
| 4 | If she was a witch she would be good at that , too . |
| 5 | ‘ You know what ? ’ he giggled , ‘ when she was a kid she used to think that cockerels laid pot eggs . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When she was a child she was a pretty little thing . |
| 7 | Since she was a schoolgirl she 's dreamed of owning shops . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Emecheta insisted that although she was a girl she wanted an education and managed to get a scholarship to the Methodist Girls ' High School . |
| 10 | Well if she was a vegan she would n't eat cheese . |
| 11 | Nobody needed to tell her she was a sinner she confessed it openly ! |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | When she was a teenager she used to go round wearing a blanket with a hole cut in it for her head . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's like she was the day she had Apricot , ’ said Rhoda . |
| 16 | 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 ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She was n't aware of how her voice softened when she said the word ‘ Mother ’ , although she did know that the precepts of morality and etiquette that she remembered her mother spelling out to her were the ones she kept most assiduously . |
| 19 | But what really astonished her was the way she had responded to him just now in her office . |
| 20 | She repeated the word softly , testing the sound of it on her lips , as if it were a word she had never heard before . |
| 21 | Blanche scrutinised the man they were interviewing , as if he were a wasp she was trying to trap . |
| 22 | One thing at a time she could have handled , but this … it was no wonder she suddenly felt that she did n't have the strength to carry on arguing . |
| 23 | It was no wonder she 'd looked as if she 'd aged , she thought guiltily , and no wonder she 'd looked miserable ; the poor woman did n't have too much to look happy about . |
| 24 | It was a tune she wanted to enter , be . |
| 25 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 26 | I know it is all of you , body and soul … there is nothing dim or mysterious in our love that we can not fathom or understand. , It was a creed she held tenaciously — sometimes blindly — to the end of her life . |
| 27 | It was a skill she needed to master if she was to drop into occupied France . |
| 28 | It was a chance she simply could n't take . |
| 29 | The state Karen was in , it was a wonder she knew who her own feet belonged to , never mind anyone else 's . |
| 30 | It was a wonder she was n't in a coma . |