Example sentences of "she [was/were] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 'd got a big black hat on , and a big black cloak , and all er crosses down here , and she 's got a boot on her arm all laced up , and nobody 'd know whether she were a man or a woman . |
| 2 | He treated the mad redhead as though she were a fellow-spirit , and she responded , until the moment when she finally admitted she was incapable of understanding a word he was saying . |
| 3 | She was to stay with her sister until Isobel decided definitely whether to remain in Tollemarche or return to England , and occasionally she became a little bored and was glad of Hank 's lively company , though to her annoyance , he treated her as if she were a ten-year-old . |
| 4 | If she were a Lady , she would still be referred to as Mrs. X. If the person were a member of the nobility or someone in whom the press had an interest , rumour would start to circulate , and damage could not be avoided . |
| 5 | When Ma had come home from London with her there 'd been great excitement , and Edward and his brother Billy had looked at the mite as if she were a fairy found among the budding snowdrops . |
| 6 | How could she describe herself as a revolutionary , a serious person , if she were a thief ? |
| 7 | ‘ Loretta ! ’ he exclaimed , greeting her as if she were a friend of many years ' standing . |
| 8 | She spoke as if she were a machine on automatic pilot . |
| 9 | Jeanne looks , in a faded photograph , as if she were a Modigliani model . |
| 10 | ‘ Except the time she said she wished she were a boy … |
| 11 | He shook her as if she were a puppy . |
| 12 | Jeff loves it ; he strokes his hand over her head as if she were a child . |
| 13 | One of them would come and talk to me as I sat beside Aunt Louise , and discuss her with me as if she were a child . |
| 14 | I led her upstairs , took off her wet clothes , bathed and dried her ; she accepting my ministrations automatically , as if she were a child and I her mother . |
| 15 | She did n't know how it happened , but she found herself in Mrs Lennox 's arms , who comforted her as though she were a child . |
| 16 | ‘ There , there , ’ he said , as if she were a child herself . |
| 17 | Ruth felt small and insecure , as if she were a child again . |
| 18 | She could not escape the thought that she felt exactly as if she were a child being taken out for a treat by a kindly uncle . |
| 19 | He did kiss her , on her forehead , and then stroked her hair gently , as if she were a child or a kitten . |
| 20 | You even talk to a woman as if she were a child . |
| 21 | Penry ushered her into the kitchen , unzipping her jacket as though she were a child . |
| 22 | Six pounds was a lot of money for a schoolteacher to lose even if she were a headmistress . |
| 23 | It was , Mrs Bouverie thought , as if she were a headmistress . |
| 24 | At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes . |
| 25 | She stared at her mother as if she were a ghost , a ghost with streaming blonde hair who wore a tightly unmaternal black dress and puffed incessantly at her cigarette . |
| 26 | Witch … ghost … oh , that she were a ghost indeed ! ’ |
| 27 | The typical tone of memory , however , is very different from this : a special sense of love , even devotion , in the grandchild for a wonderful old lady : ‘ I treated her as me mother ’ , as an abandoned farm-child sent over from Ireland put it ; or a motherless Bolton spinner 's son — ‘ she were a love … |
| 28 | Her lavender-scented mother began to watch her distastefully , as though she were a cigar being smoked in the presence of a lady without permission . |
| 29 | Picking her up as if she were a doll , he placed her on to unsteady feet . |
| 30 | He whipped back the covers and moved her into bed as if she were a doll , watching her for a second and then turning away . |