Example sentences of "she was [verb] in [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at the facts : she was seen in Alexandra Road at 11.15 , the very time at which Gerald found the yard door barred against him . |
| 2 | She was born in County Cork in 1914 , the youngest of the six children of Major JB Arbuthnot and his wife Olive Blake . |
| 3 | She was elected in April Lecturer in Statistics at London University ( Wye College ) . |
| 4 | She was lodged in Carlisle castle by the Deputy Warden of the West Marches of England , whose authority was immediately challenged by the Earl of Northumberland , premier Catholic nobleman of the region . |
| 5 | She was lodged in Faulkner Square with Florence O'Connor whose mother , Bessie Murphy , had been a famous theatrical landlady ; supper on the table at eleven o'clock , a fire lit in the bedroom , a jug of hot water outside the door at eight-thirty sharp , Sundays excluded on account of Mass . |
| 6 | MARIA CRISTINA GÓMEZ : a member of a teacher 's union , she was killed in San Salvador by a ‘ death squad ’ on April 1989 . |
| 7 | She put on a brave show when she was tried in New York last year in connection with some property deals . |
| 8 | A woman , aged 70 , was recovering at home yesterday after being attacked and robbed of her handbag as she was walking in Ernest Street , Boldon Colliery , after a night out playing bingo . |
| 9 | She was put in Ravensbrück concentration camp , whence she went with two SOE colleagues , Lilian Rolfe and Denise Bloch , on a working party at Torgau . |
| 10 | She was described in US newspapers as a tycoon who was quaint , genteel and steeped in the worlds of Beatrix Potter and Jane Austen . |
| 11 | In the second incident , a thirty year old screamed and fought back when she was attacked in Groundwell Road . |
| 12 | She was buried in St. Michael 's Churchyard in the north-east comer . |
| 13 | She was buried in St James 's , Clerkenwell , London , 3 April 1645 . |
| 14 | She was buried in St Mary 's churchyard . |
| 15 | She was imprisoned in Walton gaol , went on hunger strike , and was force-fed eight times before her release . |
| 16 | Kayathiri Vino Sangaralinigam was 10 years old when she was arrested in Jaffna District , Sri Lanka , in 1987 with her mother and two older sisters . |
| 17 | After laying down arms she was court-martialled in Kilmainham Gaol , but her death sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life in Aylesbury Gaol . |