Example sentences of "she [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as she struggled he was lifting her clear off her feet as easily as though she were made of thistledown . |
| 2 | At first she had let him wash their three-month-old child but Fred 's face had become red and perspiration stood out on his forehead as he held the mite as though she were made of china . |
| 3 | The buzzard flew to the king 's palace , waited , perching in an oak tree , until the princess came out for her evening stroll , and then picked her up and carried her back to the forest , holding her as carefully as if she were made of rose petals . |
| 4 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 5 | As his fingers explored further , slipping inside her , moving rhythmically against her , a drowsy and confused acceptance possessed her mind while , at the same time , her body responded to his touch as though she were made of fire ; and the centre of that hotness burned deep and slow and fierce inside her , tantalizingly with the magic of Johnny 's moving fingers . |
| 6 | As though she were made of fire . |
| 7 | He thought she might not have a heart , or tried to explain away her indifference by imagining she were made of obsidian through and through . |
| 8 | In the exercise of his power of arrest , it was perfectly proper for the constable to have taken into account that ‘ there was a greater likelihood … that Mrs Mohammed-Holgate would respond truthfully to questions about her connection with or knowledge of the burglary , if she were questioned under arrest at the police station , than if , without arresting her , questions were put to her … at her own home from which she could peremptorily order [ him ] to depart at any moment ’ . |
| 9 | she were parked at side of me |
| 10 | And she were wet through , she were laid in side of cooker |
| 11 | She were sucked under right enough . " |
| 12 | But now she felt cocooned in her own private shell of misery , as cut off from the noise and activity around her as if she were frozen in ice . |
| 13 | SOPHIE B. HAWKINS landed her first big break after she was sacked by pop rival Bryan Ferry . |
| 14 | Researchers found that on a day when an ‘ insular ’ mother reported having an argument with another adult before she was observed at home with her child , she was more likely to behave unpleasantly towards her child ( Wahler and Graves 1983 ) . |
| 15 | She was transferred from home to a private rehabilitation centre , but she was not happy there because she had little privacy , and her family could not travel to see her every day . |
| 16 | She was joined in court today BY her husband George , seen here in the white jacket . |
| 17 | She was joined by lithographer Lisa Rhodes from Barlaston . |
| 18 | There was such a vast variety of decorated bowls and jugs and plates that she was spoilt for choice . |
| 19 | She was covered in mud . |
| 20 | From her throat to her feet she was covered in velvet and gold , furs and silk and jewelled embroidery . |
| 21 | The next sentence begins a new paragraph : ‘ When all was over , she was covered in confusion . ’ |
| 22 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 23 | While she was trying to do this , he went to the apartment and beat her , wounding her in the head for which she was treated at hospital . |
| 24 | The next morning , when Delia Sutherland met the men before work , she was treated to opinion and advice . |
| 25 | Firearms experts then entered the house to bring out Leanne Rees , who was taken by ambulance to Darlington Memorial Hospital , where she was treated for shock . |
| 26 | Tracy West , who was knocked down , was picked up by bystanders and taken to a nearby shop , where she was treated for shock before being taken to the Memorial Hospital . |
| 27 | Yeah , , so erm , I 've got to get some medicine for all of us in a minute , put the prescription in , but erm , you know , she 's had it really for a week like , even though she was treated for thrush |
| 28 | She was treated with dialysis and then had a renal transplant , jumping ahead of patients on the waiting list . |
| 29 | Now , in her prime years , she was treated with respect , deference and even a little awe . |
| 30 | As she was treated in hospital , the terrified teenager had confessed : ‘ I do n't know if I will have the nerve to go back to work . |