Example sentences of "she was [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researchers found that on a day when an ‘ insular ’ mother reported having an argument with another adult before she was observed at home with her child , she was more likely to behave unpleasantly towards her child ( Wahler and Graves 1983 ) . |
| 2 | She was transferred from home to a private rehabilitation centre , but she was not happy there because she had little privacy , and her family could not travel to see her every day . |
| 3 | Tracy West , who was knocked down , was picked up by bystanders and taken to a nearby shop , where she was treated for shock before being taken to the Memorial Hospital . |
| 4 | She was entertaining at Windsor on Saturday . ’ |
| 5 | Meredith meant to protest , but she was robbed of breath by the extraordinary collapse of her lungs . |
| 6 | She was looking at Slater through the black web of her hair ; now her head tilted , she turned to face him , put her small hand out . |
| 7 | In the weeks preceding her dismissal , she was beset by rumours of dissent within her own party and on Aug 5 it was announced that the Combined Opposition Parties intended to table a motion of no confidence against her government . |
| 8 | Twice , aged 15 and 16 , she was remanded to prison for a series of offences including setting fire to rubbish bins , attempted theft , criminal damage ( slashing car tyres ) and making hoax telephone calls to the fire brigade . |
| 9 | She was remanded on bail at Swindon Magistrates charged with obtaining money by deception . |
| 10 | She was remanded in custody on February 24 for a week and after being granted conditional bail , lived at a probation hostel for a further three weeks . |
| 11 | She was remanded in custody by Worcester magistrates for seven days . |
| 12 | I remember seeing one and one she was pushing in front in the in the |
| 13 | She was grinning at Harold in what could only be construed as a saucy way . |
| 14 | She was grinning from ear to ear , her eyes sparkling in excited anticipation , like a child watching magicians at a carnival . |
| 15 | To Moran 's surprise she was accepted for training by five hospitals . |
| 16 | There was no post nor telephone because of the strike , and she was tormented by fantasies of Ricky being ridden off by starlets in Palm Springs . |
| 17 | She was converted to Quakerism in 1654 by John Audland and John Camm [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | She was converted to pacifism by the Quaker Hilda Clark , while at university during the Boer war . |
| 19 | She was thinking of houseboys in a saffron uniform she 'd design herself . |
| 20 | ZeeBeeCee has gained a court order allowing access to Jessamyn Bonney 's juvenile records , stored in the central infonet of the Bruyce-Hoare Agency , and we can exclusively reveal for the first time on national television that evidence which has come to light since her 1992 parricide hearing has suggested that she was indeed guilty of the murder of her father , a crime for which she was acquitted in court on the testimony of one Andrew Jean , since deceased , a gangcult associate and known perjurer . ’ |
| 21 | She was wrung with pity for her aunt , whose silence was so haunted when her brothers were not there . |
| 22 | She nearly did not remember in time , because the similarity was such an unlikely one and she was hunting for pictures of hatred . |
| 23 | Dedications in an early work to the Puritan MPs , Francis Rous [ q.v. ] and Thomas Boon , may indicate a west-country origin , though she was living in London during her years as a writer . |
| 24 | She was born in the Rhondda Valley in 1939 and trained at the Birmingham College of Art and Crafts and at the Royal Academy Schools in 1965 , when she was living in Smethwick in the West Midlands , she won a Cinzano Art Foundation Award with her painting The Whale , which enables her to spend six months at the Academy of Fine Art in Rome . |
| 25 | She was jailed for life in 1989 for murder . |
| 26 | She 'd die if she was parted from Ricky for five minutes . |
| 27 | She was sentenced for life to be Clare 's younger sister in his eyes . |
| 28 | Hannah explained that it was one of the elegant gifts that her mother had brought down when she was given in marriage to her half-cousin ( on the Tallentire side of the family ) , William Bayles Hauxwell . |
| 29 | She felt suddenly more secure despite the fact that she was flanked by men with knives . |
| 30 | She was charged with sorcery by his successor , Richard III , and made to do public penance before being imprisoned . |