Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belinda was instantly aware of the fact that she was dressed only in the silk slip that Faye had decided best captured the mood she wanted for her painting . |
| 2 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 3 | ‘ Beth taught herself how to sit because on her very first session she was kicked violently in the chest . |
| 4 | One evening when it was almost dark , she was digging happily in the vegetable garden , some distance from the cottage . |
| 5 | The case involved an alleged sexual attack by an 18-year-old young man on a 16-year-old schoolgirl as she was walking home in the early hours after a night out in the town . |
| 6 | Leaving Mrs Caskie , Maggie waved across the road to Clarice McKechnie who was a year older than her and was engaged to a lad from Oban whom she was marrying early in the new year . |
| 7 | She was punched repeatedly in the face , which left her with swollen eyes and cuts in her mouth . |
| 8 | Like Angela she would not want a poor doctor , and sooner or later would tire of her play-acting and retire back to that world — he wondered why she had left it , and what she thought that she was doing here in the East End , so far from her family and friends . |
| 9 | And here she had thought she was doing admirably in the icy crust department ! |
| 10 | ‘ She was buried here in the first century BC . ’ |
| 11 | There was nothing for Sophie to say after that and she resigned herself to the prospect of meeting Robert again , but later that morning , while she was working alone in the office , she felt desperately unhappy . |