Example sentences of "[that] she [was/were] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the fact that she suggested that they get married shows that she was living in a fantasy world . |
| 2 | She had found out from Angy 's relatives that she was living in the area and had secretly taken the opportunity of getting in touch with her . |
| 3 | Speaking on Sky News on the anniversary of her husband 's death , Mrs Maxwell , 71 , also denied that she was living in luxury while victims of Maxwell 's pensions ' funds plundering faced penury . |
| 4 | As Wilson mentions , she had recently had a harrowing shock , so it is possible that she was hallucinating in some way and that , by chance , her hallucinations corresponded approximately with historical reality . |
| 5 | ‘ She liked to think , as she lay in her corner , that she was shut in a cage with some powerful wild animal , a tiger or a lion or a bear , who had devoured his keeper and would spring upon anyone else who opened his door , but with whom she was ‘ quite safe and conceited ’ , as she said with a chuckle . ’ |
| 6 | Pete 's guess was that everybody in the valley knew something about her by now , and nearly all of them would know that she was staying in his house . |
| 7 | This would baffle her friends and her students who had the impression that she was engaged in some vast if imprecise enterprise . |
| 8 | He could see now that she was placed in an almost similar position , for with Martin marrying , she was once more being cast adrift . |
| 9 | She broke off , appalled by the realisation that she was getting in deeper still . |
| 10 | DEFIANT Fergie is NOT sorry that she was pictured in topless romps with Texan John Bryan , her mother revealed last night . |
| 11 | He could almost deceive himself that she was confiding in him . |
| 12 | I said that I understood she came from the Continent , and she told me that she was born in Denmark . |
| 13 | Stoyaeka explained that she was born in Bosnia and had lost ten of her close family ( brothers , sisters , nephews and nieces ) in the fighting . |
| 14 | She knows she could have pointed out how troops from India fought alongside the British in the war , or that she was born in that far-off , exotic setting , Middlesbrough General Hospital , and was indeed just on her way home but he was drunk as well as ill-informed , so it hardly seemed worth it . |
| 15 | She was aware that she was trembling in his hold , but , when she suddenly realised that some of that trembling could be coming from Ven , only then did she realise the stress he was under , and , for him , she pushed through her own fear barrier . |
| 16 | The multi-layered cerecloth implies that she was embalmed in a manner similar to that of her husband . |
| 17 | She saw how the dark room had filled with transparent figures who marched along the walls singing and mocking , who wrapped themselves around her so that she was suffocated in their embrace , then turned to broken bricks and choking mortar dust which cascaded in torrents on to her , flattening her to the bed so that her limbs ached with pain and she could n't move . |
| 18 | How strange it was , when you thought about it , that she was lying in a bed with this particular man . |
| 19 | She wanted now , at any price , to be able to sit in the rooms of young women who could be her friends and not feel that she was travelling in territory stranger than the night caves that were Fenna 's home . |
| 20 | Caroline realised that she was floundering in such a morass of conflicting emotions that she hardly knew what to resent most . |
| 21 | The car spluttered and shuddered , and Piers apologised so glibly on its behalf that she was left in no doubt that he was laughing at her . |
| 22 | He knew that she was falling in love , and had decided to warn her of the mistake she was making . |
| 23 | She might be able to convince herself that the momentary flash of madness she 'd experienced , in thinking that she was falling in love with Luke Calder , was merely the result of stress , but it did n't change the fact that she was greatly attracted to him , and that was where the true danger lay . |
| 24 | ‘ I remember that she was standing in front of a blue backdrop and her eyes were so blue I thought I could see the back of her head , ’ Bailey recalls . |
| 25 | They had been walking slowly ; now he stopped and pulled Robyn around so that she was standing in front of him . |
| 26 | Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room . |
| 27 | One of the patients could not categorize the expression on faces that she was shown in photographs in terms of whether the expression was one of happiness , anger , surprise and so on . |
| 28 | It was a sure , if embarrassing , sign that she was feeling in need of a new lover . |
| 29 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |