Example sentences of "she [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was faced starkly by the absolute wonder of life , and enfolded in that double-edged knowledge was the taste and imminence of death , which would be quite simply the absence of movement in the baby : stillness . |
| 2 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 3 | She had little choice but to let him draw her close against him , until she was pressed tightly into the hard curve of his body . |
| 4 | She was pressed back against the seat as Fergus accelerated again . |
| 5 | She was referred again to the same cardiologist the next year and the exercise test was again negative and she was reassured . |
| 6 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 7 | She forced Moran to dance and by the night 's end she was worn out by the single effort . |
| 8 | She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death . |
| 9 | They sang something noble and uplifting about Spiderglass and the atmosphere of pride swelled Jezrael 's emotions until she was swallowed up by the crowd 's euphoria . |
| 10 | Once she was propped comfortably against the pillows Penry Vaughan sat down again and went on with his story . |
| 11 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 12 | She saw the shadowy movement out of the corner of her eye and she was still reaching for her Beretta when she was struck heavily on the shoulder , knocking the Geiger-Muller counter from her hand . |
| 13 | While the investigation was being carried out she was pushed up on the X-ray table with sufficient force to rip the intravenous infusion from an already bruised and swollen arm . |
| 14 | Then , before she realised it , they had stopped and she was pushed down to the ground next to Sung , her back to him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She was propelled roughly along the side of the van , squeezed between its side and the traffic . |
| 17 | She was borne away from the lights , and on the stretch of darker pavement , she stopped and looked all round . |
| 18 | She was actually in the combat zone now and she noted uneasily that once again she was placed firmly beside the count . |
| 19 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 20 | I think she was swept away by the power of the man and his importance . |
| 21 | As for Mary Alice , she was flown back to the USA in June 1945 , some 11 months after her original crew . |
| 22 | When the ILO was set up in Geneva , Sophy Sanger was appointed chief of its legislative section , a post she held until 1924 , when she was edged out of the organization by Albert Thomas , the director . |
| 23 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 24 | She was fed up with the factory-style working conditions involved in producing a day-in-day-out series . |
| 25 | She was fed up with the carry-on . " |
| 26 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 27 | There was this same probing again at her hardened tone , this summing up , and Jenna kept her face perfectly still , as icily cold as she could manage , although inside she was filled again with the same old grief , the same feeling of being worthless . |
| 28 | She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children . |
| 29 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
| 30 | If they were an attention-seeking device , they were successful ; even when she was turned out of the church as she frequently was , the eyes of the whole congregation were on her ; sometimes , she reports proudly , people stood on stools to see her better . |