Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She spoke as if she were admitting to a considerable lapse of manners on her part . |
| 2 | During the long period of her recovery , Dawn understandably had bouts of severe depression , so at one stage she was referred to a clinical psychologist for counselling . |
| 3 | Her level of engagement shows that she was involved to a greater extent over a much larger part of the day . |
| 4 | She was tied to a sacrificial altar . |
| 5 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 6 | Although Joan mostly worked as a Spool Setter , she became an Axminster Winding Instructor for a period during which she was sent to a subsidiary company in Holland ( Bergos Stoddard ) for a number of weeks . |
| 7 | She was sent to a local predominantly majority school in Washington , and although credible from a political point of view , the move presented the impressionable girl with a confusing and often unstable lifestyle . |
| 8 | She was invited to a few parties , kissed good-night outside her door in South Kensington , taken out to lunch by a young man training to be a chartered accountant , and to an Italian film by another who was ‘ in the City ’ ; she was beginning to forget about Rupert when one evening towards the end of January she was later than usual leaving Toogood and Shelve , the publishers , where she worked as secretary to Mr Shelve . |
| 9 | But it just happened to be her best friend 's birthday and she was invited to a special birthday tea and to stay overnight . ’ |
| 10 | She was elected to an honorary fellowship of Girton College in 1913 . |
| 11 | Stupidly , she had hoped that Silas would invite her to sit at his table , but instead she was led to a small one by a girl she later learned to be Stella 's daughter , Jean . |
| 12 | For a moment , when Miles had looked so meltingly at her as those words poured from him , it seemed as though he were speaking to her , and the dark , wet night simply faded away from around her , and she was transported to a warm summer garden on the night of a Royal Ball . |
| 13 | Helen , of Moulton Grove , Fairfield , Stockton , burst into tears and had to be supported by relatives after being told she was going to a young offenders institution . |
| 14 | The biggest of the children , a girl with a sweet , oval face and a stout stomach that strained the buttons of her green print dress , handed the baby she was carrying to a smaller sister and stepped eagerly forward to stand beside Martha . |
| 15 | A few years ago she was admitted to a mental hospital and drugs kept her in a repressed state . |
| 16 | For this purpose she was admitted to a specialist residential unit for children and adolescents under the care of Dr. M. , a consultant psychiatrist whom she had first met when she had been referred to the family consultation clinic in 1987 . |
| 17 | So she was admitted to a special hospital with controlled environmental conditions ( described later , on p 173 ) . |
| 18 | She was admitted to an exclusive private clinic in a neighbouring village . |
| 19 | She was taken to a psychatric hospital . |
| 20 | She was taken to a small Gestapo prison near the Bastille , and thanked her lucky stars it was n't Gestapo HQ on the Avenue Foch . |
| 21 | She was taken to a comfortable bedroom with stone mullions and changed into clothes appropriate for the occasion . |
| 22 | She was taken to a psychiatric hospital but doctors soon realised this girl trapped in a world of witches was no ordinary vagrant . |
| 23 | At first she was taken to an English family who had known her parents . |
| 24 | Hearing Anya 's account , it has become clear that , when she turned up , in her rags and her stench , at Diabolexpo , she was reverting to an earlier self , complete with costume and an all-too-believable make-up job . |