Example sentences of "[subord] she [was/were] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she was following in the footsteps of some very good leaders Lord Thurso felt she " never languished in the shade of her predecessors , but brought her own style of freshness and enthusiasm , backed by a deep and secure christian faith " . |
| 2 | He held back at first , but only until she was confined in the hospital at Leyden . |
| 3 | He played loud music if she was writing in the house . |
| 4 | Her instincts told her that if she was to survive in the world of industry and commerce she had to push the past to one side , and get on with life . |
| 5 | Not unless she was hiding in the loft or something . ’ |
| 6 | In his dream he felt relief because she had n't died , because it had all been some other dream , because she was smiling in the sunshine . |
| 7 | Karim Khalil , prosecuting , said the girl met Ellis while she was living in the home . |
| 8 | While she was filming in the south of France , she met the writer Colette who insisted Audrey play Gigi on Broadway in America . |
| 9 | While she was standing in the grubby little shop , this incongruous memory had flashed into her head at the sight of her face . |
| 10 | Sally Gunnell will also go to Crystal Palace with an opportunity to earn the equivalent women 's title and same bumper pay-day but her chances look more bleak after she was beaten in the one-lap hurdles for the first time in a year by her US rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick . |
| 11 | There was really no reason why the Girl-Human could not be brought to all their bed-chambers , one after the other , before she was used in the Fidchell . |
| 12 | A CAT was the victim of a cruel attack when she was shot in the neck by a pellet . |
| 13 | Two of the men now hoisted her up , and when she was seated in the chair she slowly opened her eyes , and the first thing she saw was the great broad face of Betty Felton . |
| 14 | The ship ended her seagoing life when she was berthed in the West Old Dock , Leith , in 1928 where she remained until moved to the Newcastle Quay in 1969 . |
| 15 | It was true that she worried more about her mother now she was living near by than she had when she was living in the Tuscan hills , but that might only be because of the possibility that she would call without warning . |
| 16 | It was recorded that when she was speaking in the market-place she was audible by the Senate House . |
| 17 | Faced with actually going back to the barn , she was not now so serene about it as she had been when she was lying in the field and gazing at the sky . |
| 18 | Though she was huddled in the corner as far from him as she could get , the car was n't very big , and every time they went round a corner his thigh and shoulder pressed against hers . |
| 19 | She felt as though she were suffocating in the heat , as though it were stopping her nostrils , sealing her mouth , and when she tried to breathe it forced itself down into her stomach and made her heave . |
| 20 | She applied to Newcastle council for a grant as she was living in the Newcastle area . |
| 21 | ‘ Queenie ’ , as she was called in the family , was a doctor 's daughter who saw in Michael Joyce an eligible husband and the promise of a self-made man . |
| 22 | Carol 's dancing and her sister Suzette 's acting provided the inspiration for the Minogue sisters — Danielle or Dannii as she was known in the clan was also showing signs of talent — and the pair loved nothing better than play acting at home . |
| 23 | The offender drove up behind the victim as she was walking in the street one evening with her daughter , aged two and a half , and attacked her with a hammer , striking her two blows on the leg and one on the knee . |
| 24 | She was of a somewhat unusual design , rather narrow in the beam with a wide , bulbous underwater section midships , but in spite of a tendency to roll heavily in a beam sea she was a surprisingly good sea boat as she was to prove in the years that followed . |
| 25 | Denis was trying to comfort Carmella as she was sobbing in the pew . |