Example sentences of "she was [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although her stomach was churning at the thought of the coming ordeal , she was determined to appear at ease so as not to let Ludo down . |
| 2 | The youngest person on air is thirteen-year-old Kate Johnstone , who so impressed the team with her views on relationships that she was asked to star in front of the cameras . |
| 3 | At the time , she was intending to go to law school with a view to taking over her father 's law firm . |
| 4 | She was trying to decide between aggression and a more conciliatory approach but Wycliffe cut her short . |
| 5 | Ruth explained as briefly as possible that she was trying to get in touch with a relative — the young lady on the right of the group in the picture on page twenty-two . |
| 6 | She was summoned to wait upon Dona Marguerita at noon the following day . |
| 7 | She was compelled to sue for peace and under the terms of the Treaty of Paris was disarmed on the Black Sea . |
| 8 | All this time , her cries and weepings had so increased in volume and in duration ( sometimes she cried for five or six hours ) that she was forbidden to go to church , and had to be confessed and absolved in a private chapel . |
| 9 | Maura thought she was going to faint with fright . |
| 10 | She had thought that she was going to die of shame . |
| 11 | She did not have any idea , she realised abruptly , of what she was going to say to fitzAlan . |
| 12 | Anyway , she was very tired and said that if I did n't tell her she was going to go to sleep . |
| 13 | She guarded her secret carefully , terrified she was going to suffer from morning sickness , which might give the game away to her mother , but she 'd been lucky . |
| 14 | Each day Ariel fed Sycorax , mixing ingredients she was allowed to collect under guard from the fenced area of the compound 's grounds . |
| 15 | She was expected to join in class work , but her pain and spasticity increased because of the physical efforts she was making , and because of her stress . |
| 16 | A woman should know what sort of a man she was starting to fall in love with . |
| 17 | But the fumes seeped in until she was forced to gulp for air and she plunged into a deep and haunted sleep . |
| 18 | She told about the shame , and the heartbreaking decision she was forced to make under duress . |
| 19 | Ann High 's husband worked at the mine , but with eight children it was so difficult in winter that she was forced to apply for relief to buy extra clothing . |
| 20 | She was planning to get into university on demobilisation , to study history , and wherever she was posted she was accompanied by a large wooden crate of study books . |
| 21 | Her first published book was Bog Myrtle and Peat ( 1921 ) , a volume of poems which she was persuaded to submit for publication by her friend and literary mentor Dr Ronald Campbell Macfie . |
| 22 | When she asked what she should think again about , she was advised to train for office work . |