Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realised that she was feeling almost excited , as if she were going on an adventurous journey into unknown country . |
| 2 | She felt as if she were floating on a soft , fleecy cloud , and quite sure that she never wanted to return to earth . |
| 3 | While in Athens she had got her hall-porter to place a successful bet for her on a horse called Beethoven , and I am sure she was acting on the best information that was to be had . |
| 4 | She was had on a full stomach . |
| 5 | Of course she was drinking on the sly , her and her precious friend … |
| 6 | ‘ You did and so did I. ’ He looked up at her when she was seated on a calm grey horse . |
| 7 | She was building on a genuine ritual of immemorial antiquity , that of Beating the Bounds . |
| 8 | Rain was sure she was listening on the other side of it . |
| 9 | She was mounted on a white horse , her back straight , her head high , one hand gripping the reins and the other loosely at her side . |
| 10 | She was going on the overnight train so that she could read the Children 's Act of Scotland en route . |
| 11 | She was lying on a hard surface . |
| 12 | She was lying on a large double bed , her belly huge and swollen . |
| 13 | Sally-Anne 's returning senses told her that she was lying on an old-fashioned sofa with a high back at one end , and no sides . |
| 14 | Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland . |
| 15 | The road suddenly appeared through the thinning trees and Jenna had to scramble down a bank , cross a ditch and she was standing on the firm tarmac of the main highway . |
| 16 | She was working on the two o'clock to ten o'clock shift at the factory and on the Tuesday morning was up early to do some ironing , then she began to prepare the midday meal for herself and her mother and father , and Aunt Carrie who was visiting them . |
| 17 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 18 | She was sitting on a grassy bank , leaning forward a little , a cigarette between her fingers , and she was speaking . |
| 19 | She was sitting on a diagnostic bed in what was obviously a medlab of some kind . |
| 20 | One unfortunate woman who ran a discount shoe store was oblivious to the fact she was sitting on an old school goldmine . |
| 21 | She was sitting on the top deck and was cut and bruised by branches . |
| 22 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 23 | Unaware of his presence , she was sitting on the soft springy turf , leaning back against the ancient wall of the summer-house and gazing dreamily across the blue haze of the estuary . |
| 24 | I said she was paid on a temporary form for the week |