Example sentences of "[noun] she [was/were] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost a year after presenting to the accident and emergency department she was referred to our chest unit for observation and treatment . |
| 2 | Bearing witness in Great Torrington she was sent to Exeter prison , long detained before trial , and finally ‘ Whipt till the Blood ran down my back ’ . |
| 3 | In spring she was sent to their country place with mamina and some nice English tutor and they stayed all summer . |
| 4 | At three months she was sent to her grandparents in France for three years . |
| 5 | The two sets of carers who were not content with the institutionalisation decision were : the male friend of a single woman who said it had been a pleasure to visit her daily and help look after her ; after five months she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order because she was felt to be at risk . |
| 6 | ‘ Stay , please , ’ said Maggie ; now she was on her feet she was returning to them rapidly . |
| 7 | ‘ In the present case the act or omission of the defendant occurred while he was driving a motor car upon a public highway , and it was , we think , then reasonably foreseeable that such act or omission might cause injury to a pregnant woman in the car with which his car collided and might cause the child she was carrying to be born in an injured condition . |
| 8 | But suddenly reality was distorted and in her dream she was pulled to the ground and the two of them began digging at her chest with the rakes . |
| 9 | The whole interior was marked by the same fastidiousness she was applying to this task ; every surface neat and polished . |
| 10 | Dr Neil looked down at the bent blue-black head , and some idea of the enormous concession she was making to him struck home . |
| 11 | Donna remembered with sorrow the number of humiliations she had endured from her in school , and the thought of exposing the contents of the parcel she was carrying to such a merciless judge unnerved her . |
| 12 | Within a few hours she was transferred to the neurosurgical unit at Addenbrookes hospital , Cambridge . |
| 13 | Louise was what was known as an ‘ exchange student ’ ; at home in Nîmes she was training to be an English teacher and she was doing a year 's exchange as part of her course , teaching French conversation at the local grammar school . |
| 14 | When she arrived in the outer office , she sat at her desk , trembling , hoping Damian would not appear all day , but of course she was lying to herself again , appalled by her own desire . |
| 15 | At assessment she was found to be severely depressed with a score of thirty-two on the Beck Depression Inventory ( Beck et al . , |
| 16 | On the following Monday she was to report to Mr F. Sear in the Tool-Hardening Shed ; the money would be £4–18 shillings and 6 pence per week before overtime . |
| 17 | The feeling of being pressed against his solid , rock-hard body almost undid her completely , and for a moment she was forced to simply lean against him , her legs all but giving way beneath her . |
| 18 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 19 | Sub pose she was left to the last ! |
| 20 | She arrived at her hotel in Mariánské Láznë early on Thursday afternoon , where she had a snack in her room while she got out Cara 's list and memorised again all the questions she was to put to Mr Vendelin Gajdusek in the morning . |
| 21 | And she goes up Parker school so she was going , she said to Ange she was talking to Miss tomorrow . |
| 22 | Martha , however , was ready to question her grandmother 's notions of colour since , whatever colour she was considered to be , it only seemed to bring her trouble . |
| 23 | Before they parted May told her friend she was going to the cinema but she never left her house again . |
| 24 | When Christine , a canteen waitress at Sellafield , suffered an injury to her back she was referred to Carlisle Infirmary for a scan . |
| 25 | ‘ W-who … ? ’ she stammered , while some part of her intelligence prodded away that — could it be that he somehow knew that she was not the person she was pretending to be ? |
| 26 | Cawla was a hairdresser she was going to be getting her own chair . |
| 27 | Her sisters-in-law excluded her from their gossip ; the servants behaved towards her with greater formality and at least once a day she was summoned to Dona Marguerita 's room to sit with her and listen to her talking about the family 's history and her hopes and ambitions for João . |
| 28 | The next day she was rushed to Nottingham City Hospital where tests revealed TSS , and she was treated immediately with antibiotics . |
| 29 | And apparently at speech day she was talking to s do you know she had the cheek to say to me she had the cheek to tell somebody to say that I should at least have the decency to go out with someone who 's half looking , half good looking . |
| 30 | On–y the other day she was saying to me that people with no parents did n't like being asked questions . ’ |