Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both girls thought she was joking at first but when she recounted word for word the interview she had had with Moran they exploded into wild laughter . |
| 2 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 3 | She was speaking at random , saying anything at all , only to try to distract this acute old woman from saying what was clearly in her mind . |
| 4 | So she waited for the summons to the prince 's presence , and went with a demure step and a high heart when she was called at last . |
| 5 | ‘ I have had a letter from Maureen in which she says Niazy has written to her , telling her she was involved at that time and while he is in prison , she will stay in prison . |
| 6 | She was pointing at four or five pine-trunks sprawled at awkward angles over the hillside . |
| 7 | As for her voice , it seemed to be down at her elbow somewhere , and it was only by a kind of automatic reflex that she was singing at all . |
| 8 | Within 18 months of taking up the sport , she was timed at 11.20 and 22.74 for the sprints , won medals in the Pan American Games and came fifth in the World Cup . |
| 9 | Evidence from police and forensic officers said Mrs Prescott looked as if she 'd been sewing the hem of a curtain , when she was shot at close range in the back of the head . |
| 10 | So convinced was she that ‘ Love conquers all , that she was prepared at all times to forgo conventional ties if they interfered with his development . |
| 11 | Her father died when she was two , and , after education at the Bar Convent in York , she was courted at fourteen by the thirty-five-year-old Joseph Radcliffe : ‘ poor , little me ! … like a bird in a cage , I fluttered to be at liberty . ’ |
| 12 | She was woken at seven by the night nurses who had to tidy her up before they went off duty . |
| 13 | Suddenly , she was staring at that mouth . |
| 14 | Sara said that she was standing at that window when she noticed the light in the office . |
| 15 | One day , a week before the move , while she was standing at one of the upstairs windows , Celia saw the rector pushing his bicycle up the drive . |
| 16 | It was difficult to see what she was offering at first but as I took them from her I saw they were credit cards , an Access and a Visa , both made out in the name of Mrs J. A. Scamp . |
| 17 | She agreed to one glass of the port , not because she was feeling at all drunk but because she knew that she ought to be . |
| 18 | Groaning as if in physical pain , she rocked herself back and forth in her chair — her teeth bared as if she was grimacing at some diabolical joke . |
| 19 | She was studying at public school for her ‘ O ’ levels , and had a clear idea of which university she would go to and what she would study there . |
| 20 | He wondered what she was doing at that very moment . |
| 21 | There was no way of being certain how long she 'd spent on the ward ; it might have been six weeks or six years , but she was guessing at six months because this had been the first commission review that she 'd received . |
| 22 | She was raped at thirteen and had an orgasm , her first . |
| 23 | He was embarrassed , she knew , because she was sitting at old Eddy Moulton 's desk , upon the top of which poor old Eddy had so recently laid down his head and died . |
| 24 | And there was a lady in the , in his congregation he preached to masses , to thousands and thousands of people , and she came to him , she was , she was annoyed , she was a rather er , well-to-do lady , and she was offended at this this preaching that she had to be born again , and that people had to have this new birth experience . |