Example sentences of "she was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the twenty fifth of April nineteen eighty eight she was transferred back to Hinchinbrook hospital . |
| 2 | She was marched off under Andrée 's eyes . |
| 3 | She was flicked back against him , clamped closer with one powerful arm , and as he looked down at her , hard and intent , he made brief , rhythmic movements , flexing chest and thigh muscles to make her slide down his body , her heart hammering … he was practically making love to her on the dance-floor . |
| 4 | She was flung up into madness , as she rode the whirlwind . |
| 5 | She was waited on by Penman . |
| 6 | She was sinking down into a dream , aware only of the warmth of his body wrapped intimately against her own . |
| 7 | She was looking up at me with an expression of concern . |
| 8 | She was looking up into Aggie 's face now . |
| 9 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 10 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 11 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 12 | Now she was looking down at me . |
| 13 | and she was looking down at it , right |
| 14 | She was looking down on Millie now , and Millie answered , ‘ Yes , that is my name … |
| 15 | She was looking back over her own life . |
| 16 | Her gaze distant , as though she was looking back into the past , she continued , ‘ It would n't have been easy , staying here , but I dare say we would have managed . |
| 17 | She was looking out into the vault of air above the sea . |
| 18 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 19 | She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything . |
| 20 | She was looking out of a window towards a view of the park . |
| 21 | ‘ Once she had the key , and whilst her husband signed the formalities , she was to go up to her room , put the handbag containing the Tongue — and money , pearls , and so on — on a ledge as near as possible to a door which was going to be left deliberately ajar . |
| 22 | So she was packed off to bloody England and came back with an Englishman . |
| 23 | She was packed off to bed by midnight but Mrs Burrows often worked patiently on till the early hours of the morning . |
| 24 | The trickiest parts was keeping the feet with their fearsome claws underneath the body while she was lashed up like a parcel . |
| 25 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 26 | She was pressed back into her seat as the craft began to speed up . |
| 27 | She was pressed back against the seat as Fergus accelerated again . |
| 28 | He must be made to realise that she was speaking up for Kirsty 's sake , that she was not motivated by personal spite . |
| 29 | She was speaking out after the deputy leader of Durham County Council , Bob Pendlebury , warned the dispute between the British Government and the European Community about the allocation of European grants could hit the county hard . |
| 30 | Five minutes later she was tucked up in bed , sleeping happily once again , while Jake had retreated to his little ante-room . |