Example sentences of "she [was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if I were to kill her , if she were dead , if she were knocked over by a car , would that make the jealousy , that mixture of anxiety , grief and fear of exclusion , simply stop ? |
| 2 | The trickiest parts was keeping the feet with their fearsome claws underneath the body while she was lashed up like a parcel . |
| 3 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 4 | She was pressed back against the seat as Fergus accelerated again . |
| 5 | Before she left the Grand Hotel for the opening of the conference , she was chatted up by a ponderous Patrick Cormack , a chastened Colin Moynihan and an eager Charles Harvey . |
| 6 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 7 | She forced Moran to dance and by the night 's end she was worn out by the single effort . |
| 8 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 9 | Frances Maidment has vivid memories of the day she was run over by a stolen car . |
| 10 | She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death . |
| 11 | They sang something noble and uplifting about Spiderglass and the atmosphere of pride swelled Jezrael 's emotions until she was swallowed up by the crowd 's euphoria . |
| 12 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 13 | She was waved on by a sharp-eyed young officer , who boasted he could smell a smuggler from fifty yards away . |
| 14 | While the investigation was being carried out she was pushed up on the X-ray table with sufficient force to rip the intravenous infusion from an already bruised and swollen arm . |
| 15 | Then , before she realised it , they had stopped and she was pushed down to the ground next to Sung , her back to him . |
| 16 | The woman suffered head injuries after she was mowed down by a car which mounted the pavement . |
| 17 | She was sent out on an adventure which took her from the Annunciation to pentecost , and the questions and uncertainties built up . |
| 18 | ‘ She was hung up with a rope round her neck . |
| 19 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 20 | As for Mary Alice , she was flown back to the USA in June 1945 , some 11 months after her original crew . |
| 21 | When the ILO was set up in Geneva , Sophy Sanger was appointed chief of its legislative section , a post she held until 1924 , when she was edged out of the organization by Albert Thomas , the director . |
| 22 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 23 | She was fed up with the factory-style working conditions involved in producing a day-in-day-out series . |
| 24 | She was fed up with the carry-on . " |
| 25 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 26 | She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children . |
| 27 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
| 28 | If they were an attention-seeking device , they were successful ; even when she was turned out of the church as she frequently was , the eyes of the whole congregation were on her ; sometimes , she reports proudly , people stood on stools to see her better . |
| 29 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 30 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |