Example sentences of "she was [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was organising the next bout , to take place soon after the election , shortly before she died . |
| 2 | It was also reported that a new chapter in Andrew Morton 's controversial biography of the Princess would include details of a letter from the Duke warning her of the damage she was causing the Royal Family . |
| 3 | She was looking the other way and did n't see me . ’ |
| 4 | She was seeking the next angle , the next approach , knowing that she 'd have at the most a couple of minutes to make her pitch . |
| 5 | Getting out her suitcase , and with her fury riding high , she began throwing her belongings into it — she was catching the first plane out of there ! |
| 6 | Unwittingly she was operating the intermittent reinforcement principle in support of a bad habit ! |
| 7 | She heard the lady 's voice but she had no idea what she was saying until a sharpness in Miss Beard 's tone signified that she was repeating the same remark . |
| 8 | Both VLCCs and ULCCs were used , including the ill-fated Seawise Giant , at the time she was hit the largest ship afloat at 564,739 tonnes . |
| 9 | For another — she was remembering the familiar way in which Lubor had put his arm around her yesterday . |
| 10 | She was wearing the dumb preppie blouse her mother liked her to put on for school and , of course , the Iron Maiden . |
| 11 | Miss Pamela Lyall , who sat beside him and talked carelessly , represented the modern school of thought in that she was wearing the barest minimum of clothing on her sun-browned person . |
| 12 | She was wearing the white apron she had for cookery classes at school and was tidying up the house because the doctor was coming . |
| 13 | She was wearing the same sort of leather harness that the dragonriders had been wearing , but in her case it was much briefer . |
| 14 | She was reading the Daily Telegraph . |
| 15 | She did not want to lose Paula , who was one of her best models , but already she was enjoying the reflected glory that came from having personally trained a house model for one of the great London couture houses . |
| 16 | Finally , when she was fastening the long row of buttons on a classic dark blue creation , her mother came in , her lovely calm as untouched as ever , as though missing daughters suddenly returning were quite a normal thing . |
| 17 | An accidental death verdict has been recorded on a woman who died after she was given the wrong blood during an operation . |
| 18 | She was given the special responsibility of taking care of me , and I owe her my life . |
| 19 | For example Mrs Snell , who was looking after her husband said that she could still manage to look after him at home ; she was doing a little more for him than last year because he was physically frailer and more uncooperative , but she was getting the right amount of help and was quite satisfied . |
| 20 | Sucking in a shaky breath , aware she was taking the greatest gamble of her life , she returned to face him . |
| 21 | Lisa Isherwood of Wales sustained a broken leg during a Home International foursomes tie against Scotland , after she slipped and fell on wet ground as she was leaving the 8th green . |
| 22 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 23 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
| 24 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 25 | She was born the same day in 1877 that Alexander Graham Bell launched his first telephone company and became a teacher when just 13 . |
| 26 | France was an ally of the US and it was as such that she was to receive the greater part of the half a billion dollars in military assistance for the Far East which had been appropriated by Congress . |
| 27 | She was trying the black velvet ribbons behind her head when Lucenzo 's hand descended on one wrist violently . |
| 28 | While she was gone the old lady looked across at Wycliffe . |
| 29 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 30 | Although there were six central government departments concerned in one way or another with inner cities , the Prime Minister made it plain that she was to spearhead the inner city campaign and in 1987 , to demonstrate the seriousness of the government 's intent , a cabinet committee on the inner cities was established with Mrs Thatcher as its chairperson . |