Example sentences of "[noun] she [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 2 | Last year 15 year old Joanna Hughes died from burns , after fumes from the solvent she was sniffing caught fire . |
| 3 | It was a strange pilgrimage she was making this Sunday afternoon . |
| 4 | Besides which , sympathy was not the feeling this potently masculine man she was sharing this canoe with stirred in her . |
| 5 | Vera Shroff , a mathematics student , found that tutoring brought back the fun of a subject she was having some teething troubles in coping with at university level . |
| 6 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 7 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 8 | Then , as his eyes fell to the way she was cradling one hand in the other , he added , frowning , ‘ You 're hurt . ’ |
| 9 | The third and last time she was wakened that night , it was by the voice of her husband saying , ‘ What it is to have a clear conscience . |
| 10 | At one stage she was having forty fits a day . |
| 11 | During her interrogation she was given electric shocks , punched in the stomach and raped with a truncheon . |