Example sentences of "she was [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michelle Dixon had claimed she was sacked from the massive Trees Park Village home in Middleton St George near Darlington after expressing concern over allegations of mice and cockroaches on the premises . |
| 2 | Within a few hours she was transferred to the neurosurgical unit at Addenbrookes hospital , Cambridge . |
| 3 | That night Miss T. 's condition deteriorated and she was transferred to the intensive care unit . |
| 4 | Purchased for preservation by Roger Crombleholme in 1964 , she was moved to the then embryonic Worth Valley Railway and was steamed in February 1968 . |
| 5 | USAF officials originally placed her at Edwards AFB but she was moved to the nearby March facility for restoration and display . |
| 6 | Eventually she was moved onto the General ward . |
| 7 | Her circulating paracetamol concentration was 943 µmol/l on admission , implying a high risk of fulminant hepatitis even if she was treated with the antioxidant acetylcysteine . |
| 8 | Ms Foster put forward the idea of a similar investigation for plant and animal biotechnology because she was troubled by the unnecessary secrecy and seeming insensitivity of government departments to issues other than the narrow technical one of safety . |
| 9 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
| 10 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 11 | For the first time in her life she felt as if the veil had been stripped from her idol and she was looking at the real person who hid away inside a beautiful body , seeing her through the eyes of others who had no family love for her to colour what they saw . |
| 12 | ‘ Passed up a couple of total certs to come to your bloody bun-fight , ’ she complained , though she was looking at the poor child all the time , with her eyes half-closed and tossing her head so the sockets would catch the light . |
| 13 | Over his shoulder she was looking at the derelict house . |
| 14 | And then she was looking into the compassion-filled face of Craig Grenfell . |
| 15 | Liz was asked to imagine how she would respond if she was faced with the same problems again . |
| 16 | She gained medals and prizes which enabled her , at age 15 , to go to Paris where she was accepted into the free Ecole des Beaux Arts and studied under the most eminent French artists and sculptors . |
| 17 | She was speaking with the usual tone of insincere humility that she puts on when talking about human qualities that Intelloids lack . |
| 18 | She was stumbling for the right words . |
| 19 | Whenever Joanne completed a task requested by one or other parent without complaint she was rewarded from the same reward ‘ menu ’ . |
| 20 | While in Athens she had got her hall-porter to place a successful bet for her on a horse called Beethoven , and I am sure she was acting on the best information that was to be had . |
| 21 | In her mind she was acting under the highest orders — to give and serve and take up her cross daily . |
| 22 | She was acting like the weak woman that men would invariably cite when equality was pressed for . |
| 23 | She was thinking of the periodic visits she had made to her father ; they were all the same ; their conversations could have been scripted : |
| 24 | She was absorbed in the feminine ritual of drying her hair , as though there were no danger in their situation , as though she had not a care in the world . |
| 25 | Rourke was watching her , and she was disturbed by the uncanny perception lurking in the blue gaze . |
| 26 | In 1936 she was adopted as the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Exchange division of Liverpool . |
| 27 | That he let her go , and that she was free of him so easily was a great relief , but she was shaken from the unwanted experience , and as he swiftly went on his way she turned round — but only to collide with someone else . |
| 28 | The work in setting up sanctuaries for threatened chimps began when she was asked by the American ambassador in Burundi to design a conservation plan . |
| 29 | Of course she was drinking on the sly , her and her precious friend … |
| 30 | She was entranced by the shimmering purity of the snow , drawn by it , yet faintly intimidated at the same time , aware of her own lack of importance in the face of all this glory . |