Example sentences of "[coord] she was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a mild complaint was made against the Tunbridge Wells paid secretary and she was invited to Bloomsbury House to discuss the matter with Lola Hahn-Warburg , her reaction was hostile , to put it mildly . |
| 2 | Just the touch of his hand and she was turned to putty . |
| 3 | Her weight has dropped from 13 to seven stone and she was transferred to Rampton last August for medical treatment . |
| 4 | and honorary degrees from Pennsylvania , Toulouse , and Poitiers ; and she was elected to fellowship of the British Academy in 1952 . |
| 5 | Still , they were going to Florida and she was going to Spain , so at least this year she had something to look forward to . |
| 6 | It was vaulted and filthy , black with the grime of decades , and its sooty defaced posters spoke to her of the petty romances of others , of Ramsgate and Margate , and she was going to Paris , albeit in a school raincoat , and with a beret on her head . |
| 7 | So , like , we 've got this thing about her , anyway , she was com and she was talking to Fiona today and she was stood next to me , and like in a way , I was laughing at her but I felt so sorry for her cos she really , really stunk ! |
| 8 | Barney had flown to the States last Thursday , and she was driving to London later that Tuesday to the flat where he and Cara lived . |
| 9 | There was a chase and we managed to corner the prisoner , then I grabbed her and she was returned to custody . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't get out much , just sit here pecking out letters to old friends ’ — there was a portable typewriter on one of the tables — ‘ and she was coming to tea last Monday . |
| 11 | She hid them in our quarters , thinking they might be of use to the party , but Devraux found them and she was taken to prison . |
| 12 | When she was heavily pregnant with their third child , her husband threw her against a chest of drawers , then kicked her , and she was taken to hospital with three broken ribs . |
| 13 | Her condition deteriorated and she was admitted to Broadgreen . |