Example sentences of "[conj] she [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went to Girton College , Cambridge , where she was awarded the Gamble gold medal and took second-class honours in the moral sciences tripos ( 1887 ) . |
| 2 | Bertha Cohen nodded briskly from the scullery sink where she was cleaning the blood from the dead hen 's neck before plucking its feathers . |
| 3 | The defendant must establish not only that the plaintiff consented to the risk but also that he or she agreed that if he or she was injured the loss should be his or hers and not the defendant 's . |
| 4 | Although she was gripping the rope at her shoulders , easing the weight on her head , her neck was fixed and immobile : to look at me she had to turn her entire body and raise her eyes in their sockets . |
| 5 | She , too , felt that she was denied the opportunity to make a genuine contribution , in cooperation with the professionals , to the understanding of Tom 's needs and the circumstances in which they were being created . |
| 6 | I sensed from her wide , fearful eyes , that she was dreading the prospect of having to ring Moscow and wake Sonia up in the middle of the night , telling her Sergei was dead . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Many are unware that she was topping the charts with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones way before the platform had made a come back . |
| 10 | Many are unware that she was topping the charts with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones way before the platform had made a come back . |
| 11 | I was sure that she was telling the truth . |
| 12 | If they were right , there could be no doubt that she was telling the truth . |
| 13 | But with Lindsey it was the smoking , the drinking staying out , out pretending she was babysitting erm ringing her daddy home and saying daddy can I babysit the night till half eleven and her daddy 's thinking that she was telling the truth |
| 14 | Bridget 's hand in the small of her back reminded her gently that she was obstructing the entrance . |
| 15 | At the time she gave me the impression that she was enjoying the joke . |
| 16 | With an uncharacteristic spurt of mischief she added that she was considering the matter . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 19 | Then in September , Sue announced that she was leaving the BBC after 20 years to join Granada Television which , she said , was fully prepared to give her the freedom necessary to put together the type of programme she truly wanted to make . |
| 20 | Dr Neil knew that she was speaking the truth about what had happened to her . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Sometimes , at the end of a busy day , she would tell herself that she was handling the situation well . |
| 23 | She explained that she was chairing the meeting in the absence of Elizabeth Varley , who is ill . |
| 24 | ‘ Said it was nothing to do with her professional integrity , just that she was pursuing the spying line a bit too vigorously . |
| 25 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |
| 26 | Zora Neale Hurston was lucky enough to grow up in Eatonville , Florida , a black town run by blacks , so that she was spared the experience of racism in her formative years suffered by most black Americans . |
| 27 | You are Friend — she studied the symbols of Friend 's identity with all that he meant to her of acceptance and caring , frightened that she was showing the nebulae of her longing for him too — but I can not read you perfectly . |
| 28 | She drove so frantically to begin with that it finally occurred to her that she was running the risk of being stopped for speeding . |
| 29 | She heard the sound of another car behind her , and saw that she was blocking the narrow road . |
| 30 | No one can be in any doubt now that she was pulling the strings behind the royal side show that has preoccupied Britain for the past six months . |