Example sentences of "[coord] she was [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie was glad of it ; her legs felt like jelly and she was beyond worrying if Mitch could see the tears starting to her cheeks . |
| 2 | Yo do you there was one very bonny lass and she was on the er , they , they had erm composite programme the other the other week and she was on that again . |
| 3 | The film was nearing its climax : despite herself , and despite her incomprehension , her attention had been caught , and she was at last following it . |
| 4 | Branson held her to contract for five more months , preventing her from working anywhere else , until he decided it was unreasonable to hold her any longer , and she was at last able to find work elsewhere in the record industry . |
| 5 | ‘ You are being very naughty , ’ McAllister whispered back , pretending to be severe , ‘ and the only thing that I can say in your favour is that I am in nearly as bad a way as you are , and know exactly how you feel — but be patient , it can not be long now , ’ for she knew that once the bazaar was over , and she was at last able to tell him the truth , they could go ahead with their marriage plans , the only delaying thing being the time it would take Mama and Papa to cross the Atlantic . |
| 6 | We can not know — and she was by this time fifty-eight years old to Jack 's thirty-three — whether she felt personally slighted by the change . |
| 7 | My , my sister- in-law , she w had to go in just before Christmas , had to rather suddenly she 's was diagnosed in the summer as having diverticulitis and they planned a sort of diet out to keep her really well and she was in terrible pain and they rushed her off for a scan and er she goes privately cos Vernon , I think actually his is BUPA that he 's in , he joined when it first came out and she wrote to me and she said oh I 'm , I just feel so lonely , there 's nobody to talk to , I 've got nobody to see or anything and she felt a bit cos she was n't really that ill |
| 8 | She was n't very coherent … and she was in such a bad state I could n't force her … ’ |
| 9 | Julia 's illness had suddenly become worse and she was in great pain . |
| 10 | Jerome was dead , Nora was in Germany and she was in Some-thing-or-other Royal Infirmary . |
| 11 | Gay had spent that afternoon writing hard ; the story was going well , she said , and she was in high spirits . |
| 12 | Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck . |
| 13 | Or maybe you can say that Mellor wanted to be the captain , but she was for sure the admiral . |
| 14 | But she was on this chair so when I came back cos she , I sat over there . |
| 15 | But she was in such a hurry that she just could n't stay for long enough to help me with breastfeeding Stephen . |
| 16 | Lou was n't at all happy there , but she was in good health and that was the only thing that Ken bothered about . |
| 17 | Marguerite was not exactly a motherly woman , but she was in some way comfortable . |