Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year 15 year old Joanna Hughes died from burns , after fumes from the solvent she was sniffing caught fire . |
| 2 | It was a strange pilgrimage she was making this Sunday afternoon . |
| 3 | Besides which , sympathy was not the feeling this potently masculine man she was sharing this canoe with stirred in her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then , as his eyes fell to the way she was cradling one hand in the other , he added , frowning , ‘ You 're hurt . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At one stage she was having forty fits a day . |
| 8 | During her interrogation she was given electric shocks , punched in the stomach and raped with a truncheon . |