Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] she [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was bought for about £20,000 in May 1974 by a smuggling syndicate based in London and after being fitted out with no expense spared she was mainly based in Portugal from where her smuggling trips started , loading from supplying craft off the coast of Morocco , thence back across the Bay of Biscay to the Cornish coast . |
| 2 | Her summer job at Harrods in London lasted only one week after poor sales in the sports department meant she was no longer needed . |
| 3 | But her agent said she was still hopeful of defending her Wimbledon title . |
| 4 | Samantha woke and for a split second imagined she was still at home , still free to stretch and rise and walk and wash , still at liberty to heed her instincts and indulge her whims . |
| 5 | Ambulance crews who treated the child said she was extremely fortunate not to suffer serious eye injuries in the incident . |
| 6 | Every time the actors passed in their evening dress she was there , flicking at their shoulders with a dampened clothes brush . |
| 7 | When the phone rang she was almost in a trance . |
| 8 | The basis of this argument was that Olwyn 's behaviour meant she was always in conflict with her parents and seldom getting positive attention . |
| 9 | He phoned her several times a day to check she was there , even though both Susie and her manager had asked him not to . |
| 10 | The tribunal ruled she was unfairly dismissed from her £14,000-a-year job at the union 's regional headquarters in Edge Lane , Liverpool . |
| 11 | When morning came she was too ill with the poison to move and despite her weak protests he told her he would watch over her , for no eagle should be prey to gull or crow . |
| 12 | Yesterday , the Princess also turned down an invitation to try out a hospital treadmill saying she was much too fit already . |
| 13 | THE Princess of Wales yesterday turned down an invitation to try out a hospital treadmill saying she was much too fit already . |
| 14 | Soon they were all engaged in a noisy , boisterous game of hand-ball and , although Rachel joined in as enthusiastically as anyone , as the game progressed she was only really conscious of the mounting awareness between herself and David . |
| 15 | No one outside this building knew she was here . |
| 16 | They returned to the beer , and by the time Sylvia 's turn arrived she was quite merry . |
| 17 | She pressed her back against the wall and shuffled on the seat of her jeans to the aperture , her eyes continually flickering towards the open door to ensure she was still out of sight of the shed . |
| 18 | Luck — and the element of surprise , since neither man knew she was there . |
| 19 | Once again , as if the distressed caller knew she was there , that pitiful high-pitched cry floated thinly over the uplands to her , and this time she saw from where and what it came . |
| 20 | The bank says she was quite correct . |
| 21 | Dana was equally elusive at the flat ; she was either out when Claudia returned home or in bed with the door locked and a note pinned to the handle saying she was very tired . |
| 22 | It was almost a relief to discover that even in the short time she had been on board ship she was already beginning to acquire a golden tan . |
| 23 | She was alone in this isolated house and not a soul knew she was here except that wretched Marie . |
| 24 | Pat Emerson , who runs an animal rescue group and lives in James Street , Northwich , the closest house to the ICI plant said she was extremely worried by the incident . |
| 25 | The girl 's defence solicitor said she was now living at home after months in a children 's home during family difficulties . |