Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was determined to find out the truth and act on it . |
| 2 | But chance played an important part in this , placing Norah Brunt in the right place at the right time — she was asked to take over a retiring teacher 's movement class but refused to do so without a qualification . |
| 3 | Now he was insisting that she should give him the dress she was wearing to pay off the debt . |
| 4 | The nurse , who was dismissed , claimed she was trained to carry out the tests by the doctor who employed her , GP Dr Ashok Kumar . |
| 5 | She shut her eyes , unsure if she was trying to blot out the unexpected hunger in his kiss , or opting for her ostrich trick again and trying to pretend this was n't happening to her . |
| 6 | Having come to terms with the failure of her marriage , she was trying to pick up the broken bits of her pride , glue them together , and get on with her life . |
| 7 | She was trying to chat up the boy who was serving . |
| 8 | She was going to take back the night . |
| 9 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 10 | She was left to bring up a family she had to go the banks for money the banks were all and they refused her money to keep the farm going . |
| 11 | Maisie Williams was thrilled when she was told to turn up the following week : |
| 12 | But the funding fell through , and she was told to give up the project . |
| 13 | Boardman , who has a three-year-old daughter , claimed she was forced to carry out the abduction by an unnamed man and woman . |