Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It look a little longer to plan how she was to make the journey to Chertsey , which she had discovered was about twenty miles away . |
| 2 | That was why she was making the grade as a jockey . |
| 3 | Madonna beat Woody Allen and Sinead O'Connor when she was awarded the Sour Apple for being the most disliked celebrity . |
| 4 | There were still bits and pieces left to organize for the coming weekend , when she was hosting the first major social gathering of the new year . |
| 5 | Her greatest compliment came in 1900 when she was accorded the title of Christmas-card Laureate which earned her national fame . |
| 6 | But the lawyer told the court how Mrs Kennedy managed to press a panic button without the gunmen knowing when she was answering the telephone . |
| 7 | He met his first wife , also called Sarah , at the age of 16 , when she was playing the clarinet in a school orchestra . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't know she was smoking and I do n't know where she was getting the money from , ’ said her mother . |
| 9 | Not far from where she was standing the footpath through the wood began . |
| 10 | Melissa gave a mischievous grimace as she suddenly remembered the disapproving gleam in her friend 's eye on learning where she was spending the evening and , possibly , the night . |
| 11 | ‘ Plenty of time for that , ’ said Mrs Lennox from the range where she was putting the kettle on . |
| 12 | Getting hold of Clarissa , wherever she was entertaining the troops and having her transported to London , was apparently no more than a mild challenge . |