Example sentences of "she was probably " in BNC.

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1 She was probably so drugged she did n't struggle .
2 She was probably just seeking attention . ’
3 She was probably killed by a blow on the head , Minister .
4 Charity was an obvious candidate , Charles considered , and she was probably being watched .
5 She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog .
6 She had been hysterical , now she was probably close to catatonia .
7 George V had married , in 1893 , Princess Mary — a Londoner — granddaughter of the Duke of Cambridge , and she was probably responsible for making George V popular with the British people .
8 She was probably William 's widow , and stayed there until 1927 , near the end of the mill 's working life , when it was worked by her son .
9 Jo figured that her mother was probably a nympho — after all , it took one to know one and Jo thought she was probably a nympho herself .
10 Liz shared my commitment to women , indeed , she was probably more radical than me being ten years younger .
11 These differences led to differing perceptions of their role by the two development officers — in Ipswich the development officer was a little unsure of how she was going to ‘ work in with the existing multi-disciplinary team ’ , whereas in Newham the development officer said she felt she was probably going to spend a good deal of her time negotiating between the different services and ‘ getting them to talk to each other ’ .
12 She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period .
13 The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend .
14 She was probably delighted that someone else had to submit to his unsavoury needs now and then .
15 She nodded assent and as I turned to lead the way I thought that at close quarters she was probably younger than I 'd assumed , or else that she was older but immature : an odd impression , fleeting and gone .
16 I think she was probably activated by a divine obstinacy .
17 I expect Alice Fell — the real one — thought him a pompous busybody , but she was probably used to being ordered about by ‘ men of ardent humanity ’ . )
18 She was probably the only person who ever got the better of Flynn in a fight .
19 She was probably more wealthy than the 36-year-old six-times Wimbledon champion , he claimed .
20 I thought she was probably going to ask for money .
21 She was probably the only thing alive in it .
22 She was probably out getting a paper .
23 He made sense of none of them , but thought she was probably swearing at him .
24 She must just have got off , and she was probably watching me from somewhere high above the distant sea .
25 Stuart said the girl must have been leading Oliver on and being provocative , I said she was probably shy and terrified by these advances from her teacher , until we both realised neither of us had set eyes on the girl or knew what had happened .
26 She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action .
27 She was probably standing in the kitchen , listening and wringing her hands …
28 On the other hand , since she was trying to spell through she was probably simply putting together badly-remembered letters .
29 References are generally oblique : for instance in the argument that if a woman had enough education to do the job , she was probably " in a class aspiring to a higher social position " .
30 She was probably raped first as she had a horrible wound in the abdomen , undoubtedly caused by a grenade , as if to make an examination impossible .
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