Example sentences of "[conj] she [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she was given considerable powers , and had to be consulted by LEAs over their general development plans and any specific proposals to establish , close or alter schools ( this changed under the 1980 Act ) . |
| 2 | Miss Bhutto is spitting fury , not just over the matter of the provincial assemblies , but also because she says that she was given fewer ministries in the caretaker government ( just under a quarter ) than she deserves . |
| 3 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
| 4 | Indeed , his position as Town 's theatre critic meant that she was getting some evenings out free as well . |
| 5 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 6 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 7 | You do n't want to know that she was wearing odd socks and one of them was green , it 's |
| 8 | He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote . |
| 9 | As she gradually changed her beliefs , Cathy found that she was meeting different kinds of men . |
| 10 | She was more than a little astounded , however , that , as Naylor stood facing her in the hall of her home , she should suddenly feel breathless and find that she was extending that courtesy even further . |
| 11 | One woman , a party official 's wife , is said by the Anglican vicar to have eaten twenty-one croustades of morels in a sauce of cream and truffle , with a vapeur of Armagnac , in the belief that she was fostering international relations . |
| 12 | Lily had told her , she hoped tactfully , that she was asking six girls from the show to be her attendants . |
| 13 | She had often heard people say how Martha Gristy had been the beauty of Polruan , and she had taken pride in the fact that she was inheriting those looks . |
| 14 | The character of a woman may be attacked in ways other than an explicit recounting of her past sexual relationships or , indeed , that she was having sexual relationships . |
| 15 | She had a respiratory infection and one reason for life termination was ‘ the threat of asphyxia ’ — so she was given high-dose opioids , which ensured that she died of asphyxia . |
| 16 | Three failed to comply with the protocol restrictions ; one patient continued to use H 2 receptor antagonists until she was withdrawn three days after entry and another was unable to keep his alcohol consumption below 40 U/week ; a third ( asymptomatic ) patient withdrew her consent within a month of randomisation . |
| 17 | Devoy , champion seven times in succession until she was beaten last year , meets England 's Martine Le Moignan in the final . |
| 18 | Expecting that he would now let her go and retreat down the ladder , she was startled when his large hands gripped her thighs and continued to guide her until she was standing two steps above him . |
| 19 | and she 'd fell in it and she were having right fits . |
| 20 | Further results showed that her immunoglobulins were low , particularly IgG with a value of 5.11 g/l , and she was given intravenous immunoglobulin ( Gammimmune-N , 25 g ) to aid her recovery . |
| 21 | Lawyers for her husband contested her action in the High Court in London on Wednesday and she was given seven days to hand them back . |
| 22 | bloody hell Rac I tell you what I saw Rachael today and she was looking right fat and all , it , it 's just |
| 23 | She had a past history of Crohn 's disease which was quiescent and she was taking oral contraceptives . |
| 24 | In her wisdom she seemed to be aware of the delicacy of the situation and she was taking great care not to say anything to embarrass her companion . |
| 25 | Well his sister 's erm a social worker as well in Manchester and she was going next week to spend a year in Romania |
| 26 | HER FORMAL SCHOOLING HAD ENDED AND SHE WAS ATTENDING SECRETARIAL COLLEGE . |
| 27 | I could see her paws sticking out through the wire door and she was making one hell of a racket . |
| 28 | She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket . |
| 29 | But I met one girl by accident when I walked into the hostel one night and she was visiting another girl there . |
| 30 | She felt again that same deep chill , that same sense of horror she had always felt when in the presence of such venom , as if she were discovering that evil really did exist , that liberal attitudes were vaporous , that filth could find its way into the universe and be embodied and spread relentlessly , terrifying those it infected . |