Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what I did is I writ thirty plus thirty four , adding up to sixty four and she jumped up and she 's grabbing thing off table and she had hold of the screwdriver and I says to Linda thought she was gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were n't , she were looking for a pencil so she could rub it out , well she could n't and she found this pencil and she scribbled thirty four out . |
| 2 | So she jumped up , grabbed the pencil and everything , she got a screwdriver first , I thought she were gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were looking for a pencil |
| 3 | ‘ You looked wonderful , ’ she said , as if she were speaking to a ten-year-old after a school play . |
| 4 | She looked as if she were drowning in a goldfish tank . |
| 5 | Claudia felt as if she were drowning in a pool of conflicting emotions ; the last thing she wanted was to go anywhere with Roman and yet the thought of being with him for a little while longer filled her with delight . |
| 6 | Folly felt as if she were struggling against a tide . |
| 7 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 8 | Wincing involuntarily , feeling as if she were groping in a dark quicksand , she said quickly , ‘ Business … ’ |
| 9 | She felt as if she were suspended over a chasm between a past that was dark and terrifying and a future that inexorably beckoned . |
| 10 | She held out her hand , palm upwards now , and moved her head slowly as she looked at Aggie as if she were talking to a friend who would understand that a cousin of hers had not married beneath her . |
| 11 | ‘ But if I tell you , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said , as though she were talking to an idiot , ‘ I 'm putting Liam 's life in worse danger . |
| 12 | Shae was made of different stuff ; in his company she felt as though she were walking under a permanent spotlight , and the awareness of questioning eyes upon her made her deeply uncomfortable . |
| 13 | Lee was cold suddenly as if she were sitting in a seawind . |
| 14 | I was staring at her as if she were turning into a witch in front of my eyes . |
| 15 | She realised that she was feeling almost excited , as if she were going on an adventurous journey into unknown country . |
| 16 | She felt as if she were floating on a soft , fleecy cloud , and quite sure that she never wanted to return to earth . |
| 17 | She spoke as if she were admitting to a considerable lapse of manners on her part . |
| 18 | I mean she was in Park Hospital for so long and then she was transferred to a nursing home in Thornton . |
| 19 | She was joined for a short time by another dancer back from war service , Alan Carter . |
| 20 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 21 | She was covered in a mass of little red marks like mosquito bites . |
| 22 | Many have been psychologically damaged , like Yasmin , whose continuous self-injury meant that she was moved into a more punitive environment . |
| 23 | A DoH spokesman said : ‘ She frequently absconded , had a criminal record , and was mixing with undesirable people , yet she was moved to a home with even less security that the one she was in before . ’ |
| 24 | She was regarded as a pleasant , generous , kind child . |
| 25 | She left no personal papers , and little is known about her private life , but she was regarded as a formidable person by Beatrice and Sidney Webb ( later Baron Passfield ) , George Gissing , and George Bernard Shaw [ qq.v . ] . |
| 26 | ‘ She was regarded as a bit of an oddity , but likeable , ’ adds Sue . |
| 27 | She was seen as a light relief from the boredom or demands of the shift , and , as a female , she was treated as a pretty face in a working environment which is heavily masculine . |
| 28 | Hugo Varna 's showrooms occupied an entire floor of the 550 building and from the moment a potential client stepped out of the brass elevator she was treated to an ambience of unashamed luxury . |
| 29 | She was treated for a cut on her head but the injury was not serious and she is continuing her holiday in Cyprus . |
| 30 | In view of her deteriorating clinical condition and colonoscopic biopsy findings suggesting cytomegalovirus infection , prednisolone was withdrawn and she was treated with a course of intravenous gangcyclovir ( 500 mg daily ) for two weeks . |