Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked as if she were drowning in a goldfish tank . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And she were living in the parks . |
| 4 | You know , what she were wearing in the book ? |
| 5 | Wincing involuntarily , feeling as if she were groping in a dark quicksand , she said quickly , ‘ Business … ’ |
| 6 | She felt as though she were suffocating in the heat , as though it were stopping her nostrils , sealing her mouth , and when she tried to breathe it forced itself down into her stomach and made her heave . |
| 7 | Lee was cold suddenly as if she were sitting in a seawind . |
| 8 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 9 | She was covered in a mass of little red marks like mosquito bites . |
| 10 | Thirty minutes later she was drowning in the river Severn at Stonebench in Gloucestershire Bristol Crown court was told . |
| 11 | On one occasion she was engaged in a particularly back-breaking task , and her shrewd sense of humour observed his struggle between his dignity as a Polish officer and his chivalry as a gentleman . |
| 12 | All aboard and she was nodding in the sardine swelter on seats so narrow you could lose your virtue and never miss it . |
| 13 | Above her , an eagle soared , its gliding majesty holding her spellbound , and she was lost in a world of her own , a world she had never stepped into before as the beauty , the staggering grandeur and the warmth of Spain gripped her imagination . |
| 14 | But for the present she was lost in the wonder of her changed fortune . |
| 15 | ‘ Curse you ! ’ she began , but she was speaking in a harsh man 's voice . |
| 16 | It was recorded that when she was speaking in the market-place she was audible by the Senate House . |
| 17 | She knew she was acting in a stupid , childish manner , yet she seemed unable to control it . |
| 18 | Mrs Binks was very fat and a filthy dress hung shapelessly on her as she slumped , cigarette in mouth , over the kitchen table She was absorbed in a magazine which lay in a clearing among mounds of dirty dishes and her curlers nodded as she looked up briefly at us . |
| 19 | She was absorbed in a letter when Mervyn Cantrell came into the room . |
| 20 | She was absorbed in the feminine ritual of drying her hair , as though there were no danger in their situation , as though she had not a care in the world . |
| 21 | For the next two hours she was absorbed in the film , which turned out to be as good as she had hoped . |
| 22 | Ferdinando came to his wife in such an open way that she was reminded of the first advances he had ever made and she was stirred in a way she believed no longer possible . |
| 23 | A party of Young Conservatives , led by their national chairman , Wullie Robertson , a hairy , bearded Scot with a beer belly , wearing a T-shirt with the legend , ‘ She was stabbed in the back ’ , across it , made its way towards the exit and the real world outside . |
| 24 | ‘ Queenie ’ , as she was called in the family , was a doctor 's daughter who saw in Michael Joyce an eligible husband and the promise of a self-made man . |
| 25 | SHE WAS HANGING in a thick grey fog , just floating . |
| 26 | He had wandered away from his mother Denise , 25 , on Friday while she was queuing in a busy butcher 's in the Strand shopping centre , Bootle . |
| 27 | She was rich , beautiful , clever and amusing , and her wit became renowned ; she was featured in the picture papers , in the scandal sheets , and everyone of consequence was reported at one time or another to be going to marry her . |
| 28 | Amuni was subjected to the burlap sack torture : handcuffed and hooded in a sack , she was bound in a standing position to an iron bar for hours . |
| 29 | She was only half aware that Rachel was heavily subsidising her rent , because she was living in a part of London and a sort of house so different from her friends that she had no easy comparisons . |
| 30 | Even the fact that she suggested that they get married shows that she was living in a fantasy world . |