Example sentences of "she was [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were only shelves and drawers in the Nannie cupboard , so she was obliged to hang it by the loops of its sash from a hook on the back of the door . |
| 2 | In the fight to make ends meet , she was obliged to surround herself with people . |
| 3 | ‘ Sebastian , ’ she addressed her brother the night before she was due to present herself at G Vasey Ltd for interview , ‘ I do n't suppose you still have those specs you wore when you played a professor in — ’ |
| 4 | Our new landlady made it clear that she was delighted to accept us in preference to yet more evacuee children . |
| 5 | She was reluctant to lose him to the other side . |
| 6 | She was able to do plenty of research for Victoria Wood 's All-Day Breakfast after having her son Henry last May . |
| 7 | She was able to repeat them at the trial of the young man — and he was sentenced to seven years in prison . |
| 8 | Both arms plunged down into the water , but she was able to steady herself by pressing her hands on the stony bed . |
| 9 | At the same time , through a somewhat unlikely relationship with the emergent Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev , she was able to present herself as no longer an ‘ iron lady ’ but an instrument of greater international co-operation . |
| 10 | It was out in the open now and she was able to look him in the face again , all pretence finished . |
| 11 | Laura was not tough , but possessed a strong character and would see this sort of action not as a sacrifice , but as an act of fulfilment , she was able to project herself through her husband . |
| 12 | The worry over her disappearance which had caused his relief that she was safe to express itself in what she acknowledged was quite justified anger had abated . |
| 13 | Maybe she had been locked in her self-imposed prison for so long that now she was unable to control herself at all . |
| 14 | It was dreadful to her to think that Rose was an amateur tart earning such a pittance in her legitimate work that she was ready to sell herself for so little . |
| 15 | The hand was hot , the skin dry and the slender fingers lay in her palm like splinters of fine porcelain — she was afraid to squeeze them for fear they might snap . |
| 16 | She was supposed to speak nothing but French all day . |
| 17 | I thought she was supposed to have him at the beginning of this month . |