Example sentences of "she was [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was into the pyjamas . |
| 2 | Gazing down , Luke thought how beautiful she was despite the tear-stains and the swollen eyelids . |
| 3 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 4 | She was under no illusions — she knew he could never feel the same way about her , she knew too that she was storing up heartbreak for herself . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want any tea Mum , ’ I called out quickly before she was down the stairs . |
| 6 | Unfamiliar as she was with the niceties of English social life , she wondered why she should be surprised . |
| 7 | She was with the children er er , looking at the stage , to the left . |
| 8 | She was with the children . |
| 9 | Two years ago Mrs Ayers went next door to feed Ivy 's cat while she was at the hairdressers when she disturbed burglars at work . |
| 10 | Even in the worst hours she never gave any public impression that she was on the ropes . |
| 11 | Yeah , she was on the titles , was n't she ? |
| 12 | There she was on the stairs now . |
| 13 | Anxious as she was about the neighbours , she could n't help laughing as she hurried downstairs . |
| 14 | ‘ Delicious , ’ she muttered , realising how hungry she was after the hours spent travelling . |
| 15 | She was in the woods at the gang hut . |
| 16 | During the last few days she had been sent a poison pen letter , had her life turned upside down , and now she was in the arms of the man whom she had been absolutely determined to divorce . |
| 17 | I was informed she was in the burns unit . |
| 18 | Soon she was in the moors . |
| 19 | Hey she was right , and she was in the bushes in Vietnam and she took hold of these prisoners right |
| 20 | Soon she was in the shadows . |
| 21 | With savage irony , when she was in the depths of despair , the tide of publicity turned against her . |
| 22 | There she was in the wellies the hameknitted Aran jumper and the stonewash dungarees . |
| 23 | ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac . |
| 24 | She was like the photographs of Hollywood film stars that she had seen once in an old copy of Picturegoer . |