Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to make Martha speak high English at home as if she were still in school , but the old woman often lapsed into patois herself . |
| 2 | Sounds of movement behind me suggested she was just in time . |
| 3 | She was just in time to catch the overnight Red Eye for Heathrow . |
| 4 | She was just in time to hear the street door slam , two floors below . |
| 5 | She was just in time for the tail end of the early evening news , and her attention was immediately caught . |
| 6 | She was also in danger of falling asleep . |
| 7 | She was eventually in charge of 160 dancers at one point , and she choreographed productions all over the world . |
| 8 | She was right of course , he knew that , but her words hurt just the same . |
| 9 | She was right of course . |
| 10 | Instead , she was utterly at leisure to give unstintingly to friends and foes , colleagues and passing tramps . |
| 11 | She was here to work , to wend her way among the clusters of people gathered around the groaning buffet tables , to smile like a wax mannequin and to stop when requested , to pirouette and offer the same answer to each question about her gown whether it dealt with size , colour , fabric , price or availability . |
| 12 | For the first seven weeks she was meticulously on time . |
| 13 | ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with Gertrude Lawrence ( the American actress ) , that she was passionately in love with the wife of her American publisher but that it was n't consummated , and that she had some sort of an affair with her French teacher when young . ’ |
| 14 | But she was already under stress , in her ambitions and her wish to please her mother with her success . |
| 15 | She was already within arm 's length , only the door standing between them to prevent him from reaching her , and she clearly suspected nothing because she was moving in and as her hand passed close to the glass , he could see it in vivid pastel detail . |
| 16 | She was already in way over her head . |
| 17 | She was already in bed . ’ |
| 18 | Middlesbrough Arena : TONI Halliday said she was nearly at home in Middlesbrough . |
| 19 | But she did know she was badly in need of a dose of sanity herself right now . |
| 20 | She was rarely at school , kept away constantly by a variety of excuses dreamed up by her father and brothers who all decided that an education was of less use to Ellie than a clean and tidy home was to them . |
| 21 | Maybe the conversation had something to do with it , for Eva had no intention of letting her interests deteriorate however far out in the bush they might be , and she was rarely at loss for an anecdote or conversation starter . |
| 22 | The outcome has removed strains between members of the committee which last week resulted in Coun. Mrs Scott expressing ‘ disappointment ’ that some other members had written to local politicians about the unit while she was away on holiday . |
| 23 | After he had separated from her mother and when she was away at boarding-school , he would drive down to visit her , often accompanied by some rather mature page-boy in jeans or a mini-skirt and Molly would sit with them in silence at an endless tea in the local Trusthouse Forte . |
| 24 | It had happened when she was away at school and her grandfather had glossed over the whole sorry business to the best of his ability . |
| 25 | In Brown v Rentokil Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 4 , the EAT ruled that an employee who had been dismissed in accordance with sickness absence rules when she was away from work because of pregnancy-related illness , was not discriminated against . |
| 26 | Sadly they were to part with Angie attempting suicide and David snatching their son Zowie back from Angie while she was away from home in Switzerland . |
| 27 | She just had to turn out , and there was nothing coming down , foot down , opened up , got I was at the top of the hill and she was nowhere in sight . |
| 28 | Yes , she loved the finer things , but she was equally at home dressed as she was . |
| 29 | Tug could tell that she was desperately in earnest by the way she opened her eyes wide and by the little sudden lift of her eyebrows . |
| 30 | She could not tell them that she was desperately in love with Bob Lamb . |