Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 She was breathless by the time she reached the farm .
2 She was unconscious by the time I reached her , ’ she said .
3 She was unaware of the time passing ; there was only the comforting tick of the grandmother clock in the corner to break the silence .
4 She was 16 at the time , but later succeeded in qualifying as a lawyer .
5 She was vague about the time , but it was definitely late on .
6 If she was depressed for a time , he blamed it on the illness she had had , and was sympathetic .
7 She was young at the time , just fourteen , and I suppose did n't really know what she was saying .
8 Sent away to boarding school when she was six ( she rarely sees her family now ) , she got three A- levels at college and shortly after got married : a mistake , she now realises , but she was pregnant at the time .
9 She was 27 at the time and not residing with her parents .
10 She was angry at the time , and she was praying for guidance as to what to do with her life .
11 She was 15 at the time of the wedding , and was to present him with seven children , among them the future Charles I. She also presented him with an embarrassing situation by deciding after a while to become a Roman Catholic .
12 Spectators and Ambulance crews tried to revive her but she was dead by the time she reached hospital …
13 She only escaped because she was ill at the time and had remained behind .
14 It is also reported that in 10 WFS countries of Sub-Sahara Africa , the proportion overall of babies dying within the first month of life is 50 per cent higher and that post neonatal mortality is 25 per cent higher where the mother was under age 20 than where she was 20–29 at the time of the birth .
15 She was quiet for a time and when she spoke again her manner was more confiding .
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