Example sentences of "she was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 32 | She was fed up with the factory-style working conditions involved in producing a day-in-day-out series . |
| 33 | She was fed up with the carry-on . " |
| 34 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 35 | As I understood it she was flying back to the States tomorrow . ’ |
| 36 | When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance . |
| 37 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 38 | He was giving her orders : she was to hold on to the edge of the pool and breathe deeply in and out . |
| 39 | She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 43 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 44 | After she was beaten up by the other pupils , Calvin said , ‘ The trouble with than one , though , is she 's ugly . |
| 45 | Penny , three times world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday , lost vital points when , as she lay fifth in the seventh race in her class , the centre board broke and she was ruled out of the race . |
| 46 | The three-time world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday lost vital points when she was ruled out of the seventh race after her board broke . |
| 47 | She 'd never thought she was cut out for the domestic life , but she was surprised to find just how satisfying and fulfilling it really was . |
| 48 | Casting an agonised glance of appeal at Ludovico , who failed to notice it , she was led off along the terrace , away from the tables and chairs . |
| 49 | And she 'd , she 'd even get her girlfriend 's mother to ring up to say she was staying there the night , the mothers used to s ring up Joan tell them that it was al alright for er for er Andrea to stay there the night and she was never , she was camping out in the fields with a crowd of them oh |
| 50 | Mrs yeah I was laughing , she was rolling around on the floor laughing , yes I said oh it 's |
| 51 | It was only as she was heading out into the road that she raised her eyes to the rear-view mirror . |
| 52 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 53 | Somewhere below , only a few minutes away but in another world completely , she was running back to the house , Simon in hot pursuit . |
| 54 | The next minute she was running out of the yard and into the street again and into the shelter of the doorway leading into the hat shop . |
| 55 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 56 | Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever . |
| 57 | Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed |
| 58 | She was going on about the grass they 've left on the |
| 59 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 60 | She was going out of the band room when she suddenly asked , ‘ If someone takes liberties with you , is it partly your own fault ? ’ |