Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz was asked to imagine how she would respond if she was faced with the same problems again . |
| 2 | Whenever Joanne completed a task requested by one or other parent without complaint she was rewarded from the same reward ‘ menu ’ . |
| 3 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 4 | Oh yes , it 's in Scotland , you see , and whilst there , you see , every day er because a lady laughed at me and she said , she was staying in the same hotel and she said er I , I used to book up in advance of course but never took a chance . |
| 5 | she , she was baptised at the same time as I was , you know , er , the same day , Manchester assembly , that was nineteen seventy four seventy five no , seventy four , yeah |
| 6 | Detectives investigating the murder of Glasgow pensioner Agnes Law have revealed that she was killed for the few pounds she had in her house . |
| 7 | Although she could not afford to stay there , she certainly intended to give the impression that she was lodging under the same roof as the leaders of the Party . |
| 8 | And she was subjected to the same technique Courtney used to ensnare women he assaulted after offering them drugged wine . |
| 9 | As a great admirer of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dresses , she often wore the long , British-made cotton dresses to Embassy functions — once she found she was clothed in the same fabric as a sofa — an embarrassment which she carried off with great panache . |
| 10 | Her picture of God ( which came from experiences in the past ) was so distorted that without realizing it she was believing a grotesque caricature of God which for sanity 's sake she was forced at the same time to doubt . |
| 11 | He was sure that she was animated by the same desire . |
| 12 | And now she was saying with the same delight , about someone else , ‘ Absolutely . ’ |