Example sentences of "she was [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And she 'd , she 'd even get her girlfriend 's mother to ring up to say she was staying there the night , the mothers used to s ring up Joan tell them that it was al alright for er for er Andrea to stay there the night and she was never , she was camping out in the fields with a crowd of them oh |
| 3 | Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed |
| 4 | She was most welcoming and wanted their children to have their friends in , she was a neighbourly woman , but if those children were still what she called ‘ hanging around ’ by the time dinner was ready and she was held up in the business of getting the evening meal dealt with , it put her out . |
| 5 | Maybe she was lying out in the desert right now with her prettiness all ruined by bloody holes . |
| 6 | No girl , reported David Riesman , the sociologist , would go to a dance unless she was picked up in a car belonging to or driven by her escort , which was likely to be ‘ the second car ’ . |
| 7 | She was picked up in the centre of town in broad daylight . |
| 8 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 9 | Eventually , she was caught up in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting — when she was depressed she ate , when she was bored she ate ; a box of cakes and half a dozen Mars bars in one session was nothing unusual . |
| 10 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 11 | In 1979 as a hospital worker , she was caught up in the Winter of Discontent . |
| 12 | She was caught up in the drama of a big story . |
| 13 | Now there is a whole ocean between John and me , Ianthe thought , but soon she was caught up in the bustle of landing . |
| 14 | She was set down in a quiet side-street near the Madeleine . |
| 15 | She was brought up in the colonial culture of India and married to a senior military figure . |
| 16 | Their hay would be fed as it had been cut , handful by handful , and should be enough with seaweed and oat straw to feed her till she was helped out in the spring . |
| 17 | Now I do n't know how they managed this dear because she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around and there you are you see . |
| 18 | and I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that , I did n't know what , now I do n't know how they manage this year because , she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around , there you are , you see , these , they , they will love and find a way , anyway , erm , I said dear look , a woman needs a man to support her I said mark my words when the chap that she 's got at the moment is taken her out to disco 's and things , she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
| 19 | She was laid out in the mortuary . |
| 20 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 21 | Now she was sunk back in the same state , or perilously near to it . |
| 22 | She was squatting down in the photograph and Sabrina estimated her to have been a little over five feet with a slender petite figure and a pale , milky complexion . |