Example sentences of "she [was/were] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After half an hour or so , the two of them restored their employer to her feet , and they set off again , Miss Fergusson leaning on the guide 's arm with a strange nonchalance , as if she were being conducted round a cathedral or a zoological garden . |
| 2 | Overworked and depressed , she felt as if she were being turned into a glamorous business machine . |
| 3 | What harm would come if she were being fooled for a change ? |
| 4 | The Trunchbull 's whole body and face seemed to swell up as though she were being inflated by a bicycle-pump . |
| 5 | She was being born as the Samtampa went down . |
| 6 | The 41-year-old mother realised she was being followed by two men as she returned to a multi-storey car park after a lunchtime trip to a supermarket in Fareham , Hants . |
| 7 | The injured included a 24-year-old woman who had to be resuscitated from a heart attack as she was being flown to hospital by helicopter . |
| 8 | However , Fran now felt that she was being accepted as part of the team . |
| 9 | Did n't she know she was being played like a fish ? |
| 10 | They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui , and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere ; Rachel felt she was being shaken till her teeth rattled as the car sped up through the cross-harbour tunnel into Causeway Bay , past the bobbing sampans and the escort clubs , speeding towards Central District along the harbour road , traffic everywhere , horns blasting in her ears … |
| 11 | Then she was being dragged up from the music stool and she was being shaken by the shoulders as he demanded , ‘ What 's this ? |
| 12 | There was now the added problem of his huge work schedule , and she was being viewed as the girlfriend of a very successful actor — when time allowed . |
| 13 | Dragging her feet reluctantly , as if she was being pushed from behind , Sylvia took her book to Carolyn , standing well back and handing it to her at arm 's length . |
| 14 | She was being treated at home at that time . |
| 15 | The woman , who has n't been named , went missing from the ward where she was being treated at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on Saturday . |
| 16 | She was being treated like a prisoner . |
| 17 | The whole thing stank , she said , the so-called surprise element was patronising , she was being treated like a child . |
| 18 | She appeared to be looking in two directions at once and Dot could n't tell whether or not she was being stared at . |
| 19 | His widow Jane was said to be ‘ inconsolable ’ as she was being comforted by friends . |
| 20 | At last she was being dismissed from his dangerous presence . |
| 21 | This afternoon she was being cared for by police and relatives . |
| 22 | She was being dragged along the asphalt . |
| 23 | She was being led to a place that many people had heard about , but only a handful of desperate , hunted souls had actually seen . |
| 24 | ‘ His assistant , then , ’ Shae returned a little impatiently , struck by a strange feeling that she was being toyed with . |
| 25 | But she was being battered by so many conflicting emotions that her brain felt numb . |
| 26 | Some decided that they would not pay the poll tax , but the people about whom I worry are those such as the elderly lady suffering from a form of senile dementia who came to me because she was being harassed about the poll tax . |
| 27 | Soft his speech might be , but Meredith felt she was being speared by the twin daggers of his eyes . |
| 28 | She had already obtained a legal separation from her mother , claiming she was being used as a nursemaid for the baby in the family . |
| 29 | She recalled an occasion when she was being taken for a walk in the park . |
| 30 | He was thinking instead of the twenty minutes he had spent at home between a difficult hour persuading the voluntary organist at New End ( a retired primary-school headmistress who felt she was being taken for granted ) to continue , at least temporarily , and this service of compline at Quindale . |