Example sentences of "[noun pl] she [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her head was pounding now , a result of the tension of the evening , she suspected , and the near-homicidal tendencies she was discovering in the company of this thoroughly unpleasant man . |
| 2 | Bhutto , who lost one of the seats she was contesting in the north-western city of Peshawar , alleged on Oct. 25 that there had been " massive fraud across the country " . |
| 3 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
| 4 | These were the smells she was sending across the city … |
| 5 | Two candles would be wasteful but the small stitches she was making in the soft leather swam before her eyes in the poor light . |
| 6 | Reeling from her wounds , she still managed to give her car 's call sign — Delta Romeo Three Two — and told listening colleagues she was going after the man . |