Example sentences of "[verb] her [adj] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | She noticed the tightness of the thin lips , instinct warning her that trouble was at hand , so she leaned back in her chair and waited for the storm to break . |
| 2 | I told her that oiling was not our job and that management was always trying to make us do more work for the same pay . |
| 3 | That he could affect her this way was deeply shocking . |
| 4 | She was suffering as he must have suffered ; and if he knew her pain might he not come to her , as she had so often come to him , gently reminding her that despair was an unavoidable but essential ordeal , of the quest ? |
| 5 | apparently she used to go out with him before she married Derek , I think her first husband was called . |
| 6 | He had warned her that desire was all he had to offer her , and he had probably assumed that his warning had hit home . |
| 7 | She could hear the regretful , gentle voice of Mother Francis telling her that life was never meant to be easy and that her best course was to work very hard now and get out of this place in record time . |
| 8 | In the first days she said her one hope was that her children , isolated though they were , could feel ‘ held ’ in the same safe way . |