Example sentences of "she [was/were] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She began to wish she were on a surgical ward , but there was no chance of that happening within the next couple of months . |
| 2 | She 's knocking on , she were on the other day |
| 3 | For a moment she wished she were on the top floor of a very , very high skyscraper . |
| 4 | It was as though she were in a sexual frenzy , completely transported by the excitement of her passion . |
| 5 | word clear and comprehensible as if she were in the front row of the stalls . |
| 6 | The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling . |
| 7 | When she reached the summit , she was into the full brunt of the gale-force wind . |
| 8 | She was of a certain age , so mebbe her painting days are over . |
| 9 | She was of a nervous disposition , Miss Kilspindie . |
| 10 | By the next evening , she was of a different mind . |
| 11 | Fond though she was of the other girl , she could n't take much more of this . |
| 12 | She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly . |
| 13 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 14 | Whatever the complications may have been , and whatever those theatre nurses may have thought , the fact was that Kirsty had suffered no physical ill-effects once she was over the post-operative period . |
| 15 | When Corkill , of Darlington , Co Durham , was stopped by police , the boy was in her car and she was over the drink-drive limit , Teesside magistrates heard . |
| 16 | said she was with a new husband |
| 17 | ‘ But she was with a young man … |
| 18 | The purely guilty nightmare might be illustrated in terms of sexual repression and guilt by Mary Baxter Eddy 's dream of being assaulted by a strange man while she was with a Christian Science congregation . |
| 19 | ‘ But I thought she was with the other programme . ’ |
| 20 | He was making her feel a bit strange again with his hand on her skin and she was at a decided disadvantage . |
| 21 | At a party in Soho in 1914 Epstein was talking to Beatrice , who made it clear that she was at a loose end in her life . |
| 22 | Three separate inquiries are underway into why a woman spectator died attending the demoliton of a block of flats in Glasgow , early reports suggest she WAS at a safe distance from the site of the blast . |
| 23 | As usual when drunk , he spoke to her as if she was at the other end of the street . |
| 24 | She was at the deep end of the pool when Felipe suddenly surfaced beside her . |
| 25 | Gorman , 61 — MP for Billericay in Essex — did not appear because she was at the Tory conference in Brighton . |
| 26 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 27 | Either because she was at the bottom end of the family , or because she always had a book to study . |
| 28 | She was on every front page , save for the Independent which carried a picture of the Queen Mother ( Amaranth was on page 2 ) . |
| 29 | Cos she was on a lay by |
| 30 | But once she was on a downward incline she could only run faster and faster , squawking with fury as she lost her balance , till she tripped over and fell in a tumble of feathers and feet . |