Example sentences of "she was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How alarmed you must have been to discover she was receiving secret messages from some mysterious adviser , who also promised he would arrange her escape from Godstowe ! |
| 2 | But I heard only this morning the story of an Arab girl whose parents have had to remove her from school because she was receiving threatening messages . |
| 3 | She was recovering last night . |
| 4 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
| 5 | ‘ Quit using those big words to impress people , ’ when she had n't been aware she was using big words . |
| 6 | bloody hell Rac I tell you what I saw Rachael today and she was looking right fat and all , it , it 's just |
| 7 | After seven years the insect was blown into the Great Hall of Inver Cechmaine and was accidentally swallowed by the wife of that nobleman ; she was reborn nine months later , again given the name Etain and growing to be an exquisitely beautiful woman . |
| 8 | She was lost all hands aboard . |
| 9 | She was denied any opportunity to appear before councillors in order to appeal against her suspension . |
| 10 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
| 11 | She was thinking that rejection brought out the best in Bert . |
| 12 | In one year alone she was overseeing twelve undergraduates , of whom eleven emerged with first-class degrees . |
| 13 | She was learning Venetian wiliness , she thought wryly . |
| 14 | If she was addressing young people she made it her business to acquaint herself with their interests . |
| 15 | She was asked discreet questions about private health insurance and , in the face of her disclaimers , equally civil ones about her credit cards . |
| 16 | Allison Dutton , 24 , was working late at her office in Cherbourg , France , where she had moved to live with her fiance , when she was stabbed 18 times . |
| 17 | She was stabbed three times , but pursued the man for 50 yards , calling for help on her radio , before she collapsed . |
| 18 | She was stabbed 15 times with scissors . |
| 19 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 20 | She was called Lucky Lady and had originally been bought by grandfather Alec , some forty years ago . |
| 21 | She was made Head Girl and although it was not acknowledged by anyone in authority , she was already drinking too much . |
| 22 | Oh she was screaming this morning . |
| 23 | she had fat knees in ginger stockings which kept straying apart … he could see she was wearing apricot knickers ; |
| 24 | She taught in a health club ; aerobics , that kind of thing , and the next we knew she was wearing hot pants on a street corner in New York and strutting her stuff at the cars . |
| 25 | She was wearing blue tights and sandals and had hitched her dress well up in order to swing her legs . |
| 26 | She was wearing blue jeans , a black coat and pink and white trainers . |
| 27 | ‘ What 's that supposed to mean ? ’ asked Rose , and grimaced ; she was wearing new shoes and they were giving her gyp . |
| 28 | She was wearing clingy jeans and a ribbed woollen sweater which emphasized the lines of her body . |
| 29 | She was wearing long evening gloves , indeed seemed to be fully dressed for a ball . |
| 30 | She was wearing black trousers topped with a belted tunic in thin grey wool , high-buttoned almost to the chin , and deep-cuffed . |