Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she was [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jess glanced at Miss Phoebe to see how she was reacting to the bit about niggers . |
| 2 | Of how she was lying on the ground , for example ? ’ |
| 3 | She explained to Farmer Plant how she used the outjutting twin branches of the tree as her pony , as she had n't a real one to ride , and how she was working for the Pony Rider badge . |
| 4 | Antonia made no excuses about why she was attracted to the bespectacled father-of-two . |
| 5 | I have never understood why she was criticised by the Opposition for speaking up for Britain , but I am not exactly clear about their present position , except that they seem to be claiming that they can negotiate better conditions than the Government , despite their failure when in government in 1975 to negotiate proper terms for our entry . |
| 6 | Constance had been there just under three weeks when she was called into the fitting room by the vendeuse . |
| 7 | She 's been in Malta since February 1968 when she was impounded by the Airport Authorities whilst wearing the spurious registration 5T-TAF and carrying a cargo of aircraft tyres with the suspected destination of Biafra . |
| 8 | She helped some bairns when she was living in the Australian outback . |
| 9 | At dawn , in the lull when even the snipers seem to sleep , Marina was dreaming of death when she was awoken by the screams of a 23-year-old woman , Ziba Islamovic . |
| 10 | It is Miss Havisham 's way of getting her revenge on the male sex as it was a man who broke her heart , all those years ago , when she was abandoned on the day of her wedding . |
| 11 | But one day when she was sitting on the branch , it broke , and she fell . |
| 12 | Of course Herman loves her whisperings — for he is always convinced that he will catch a word or two — but all he has ever heard was when she was going from the dining-room to the drawing-room after lunch with him , and she whispered : ‘ I hate sauces . |
| 13 | Gail , 41 , who met Ian when she was working at the American Hospital in Beirut , grew up nearby . |
| 14 | If Anne reminded me of a gazelle , then Mrs. Constantine was like a snake : supple and seemingly without bones , smooth , lustrous , with wicked black eyes like stones and shining black hair twisted up into a knot on top of her head and a wide , wide mouth with disturbingly red lips and a flickering tongue that darted out to lick the crimson lips when she was concentrating on the cards . |
| 15 | She said she was 18 when she was put through the ‘ terrifying ’ ordeal by two women officers . |
| 16 | Her back knitted , but doubled over , for after the first weeks when she was laid on the ground from fear of hurting her raw flesh , she had preferred to lie in a hammock , where she had lain curved for weeks on end . |
| 17 | Tracey Morton , 29 , had to undergo five brain operations when she was thrown into the air and carried down the road by the motorbike in High Holborn , London , in August 1988 . |
| 18 | She gained medals and prizes which enabled her , at age 15 , to go to Paris where she was accepted into the free Ecole des Beaux Arts and studied under the most eminent French artists and sculptors . |
| 19 | For her part in the daring escapade , Flora Macdonald was taken prisoner and , for a year , lay incarcerated on a troopship in Leith Roads in the Firth of Forth , before being taken to London , where she was sent to the Tower . |
| 20 | Caron wrote it in the aftermath of the '92 riots in LA where she was living at the time . |
| 21 | As he and George hesitated by the doorway , Tamar rose from where she was seated by the fireplace . |
| 22 | She had a degree in Romance languages from Wellesley and after doing her postgraduate work at the Sorbonne she had travelled extensively across Europe before returning to the States where she was recruited by the FBI , specializing in the use of firearms . |
| 23 | The truck later delivered this girl to the place where she was dumped on the outskirts of Pontino . |
| 24 | and the night we slept in the garden and the night before we went we , Mrs was taken ill and I was giving her , tepid sponges up and the towel where she was sleeping in the garden |