Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was sorry immediately for the outburst . |
| 2 | She was close enough to the dead man to arrange to meet him at an isolated spot without arousing suspicions . |
| 3 | Julian took her companion by the hand , and wormed her way round elbows and between shoulders as far down the street as she could , drawing Brother John after her ; but before she was close enough to the gatehouse to see what was happening there she was brought to a halt , and could move no farther . |
| 4 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 5 | She was far away in the world of her imagination . |
| 6 | Alison Taylor , the former Gwynedd social worker who says she was sacked for speaking out about the abuses in care , told Community Care last week that she was concerned both at the slow progress of the investigations and the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute certain individuals on grounds of insufficient evidence . |
| 7 | Nothing grew in or around the stonework and , as she wandered around , she was aware also of the silence . |
| 8 | She was puzzled only by the unmistakable largesse of the confidence proffered to her , because try as she might , she could not persuade herself that Clelia could talk like this , so wittily and intimately and inquiringly , to everyone ; she could not believe that she could talk like this to many . |
| 9 | Not even hearing the rolling crackle above , she was conscious only of the moving light , as the footsteps began again and it swung this way and that , searching something out . |
| 10 | Here , however , she was alone apart from a couple of men seated on stools next to the bar , and a yellow Labrador slumbering at their feet . |
| 11 | Today she was hungry only for the house . |
| 12 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 13 | He never reacted hostilely to any such suggestion , except to say to me that she was difficult enough in a friendly association and matters might be worse ( his own words ) if he took any action to remove her from his political scene . |
| 14 | Anita Brookner 's novels are London-based , and they revive in their concise and elegant style , in fictions at once grim and yet subtly self-mocking , the Brontëan theme of lonely , loving heroines more sensitive than beautiful — ‘ she was attractive enough for a clever woman , but it was principally as a clever woman that she was attractive ’ — and , as in the Brontës , without the solace of a happy ending . |
| 15 | She was stuck there with the bags , she could n't leave them to go and pick the child up . |
| 16 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |