Example sentences of "she was [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 2 | In 1891 she was briefly engaged to Charles Morrison , a Scottish missionary teacher at Duke Town eighteen years her junior , but when the Mission Board refused to allow him to join her in Okoyong , the relationship was broken off . |
| 3 | Kate knew she was probably going to be too blunt for her mother , who liked everything to be wrapped in euphemisms , but she did n't feel able to go on playing her gentle games . |
| 4 | She was probably going to be fired tomorrow . |
| 5 | She was just trying to be awkward . |
| 6 | She was just going to be rather tedious from now on . |
| 7 | He reached for his cup , and there was Julian with the flagon lifted , ready to refill both his and Hotspur 's , so silently and impassively that they might almost have dreamed her into the fringes of their conference , but for the fourth cup which had appeared beside theirs , and which she was also filling to the brim . |
| 8 | She was also sent to the old lady 's house to sleep , ‘ because she was alone . |
| 9 | And , while holding a conversation with her client , she was also listening to the voice of her broker , relaying prices from the floor of the Metal Exchange in Plantation House through the loudspeaker on the wall above her desk . |
| 10 | In the other case , two neighbours were helping to care for an 88-year-old single woman ; service-providers were not happy with this care and were suspicious about the neighbours ' management of the woman 's finances , so she was also admitted to hospital under a guardianship order . |
| 11 | She was eventually taken to hospital , and this morning they told Moira that her condition is very serious . |
| 12 | She was not scrapped and remained at Wroughton where on March 16 , 1956 , she was officially transferred to the RAF 's Historical Aircraft Collection , which at that time was widely dispersed at such locations such as Gaydon and Fulbeck . |
| 13 | ‘ She had n't even been taught to talk but she was immediately drawn to me , and I to her . |
| 14 | Throughout her life she was a regular worshipper at Llanfwrog Parish Church , even though in recent years she was largely confined to her home . |
| 15 | She was barely listening to him . |
| 16 | She was passionately attached to Wyndham Lewis and advised all young artists ‘ to go on boozing and wasting ’ because they were such odd creatures . |
| 17 | She was later transferred to Middlesbrough General Hospital , where her condition last night was said to be ‘ satisfactory ’ . |
| 18 | She was later transferred to Middlesbrough General , where her condition last night was said to be ‘ satisfactory ’ and not life threatening . |
| 19 | She was later mated to Arras v Gerbermuhle , to produce the first litter to be recognized by the AKC . |
| 20 | She was already rising to her feet when Gerard the butler taped on the door before opening it . |
| 21 | Yet by 1920 she was already submitting to governmental pressures in her Moscow office . |
| 22 | She was admirably suited to membership of a caring profession . |
| 23 | She was fast coming to the conclusion that it would be impossible to be neutral about Matthew Preston . |
| 24 | She was fast coming to terms with the fact that there were two sides to this man . |
| 25 | After a long battle with the local council , she was finally taken to court and fined £800 . |
| 26 | It was held on the facts that the trustees did not have the power to make such loans and that the payments were in fact outright payments so that she was properly assessed to income tax . |
| 27 | Two years after her conversion to strictness of life , she was sexually attracted to a man she knew well , although she seems to have had just before this a grandiose sense of her own imperviousness to sin . |
| 28 | She sternly reminded herself that she was n't going to fall in love with the wrong man again just because she was sexually attracted to him , and she was never going to get married again . |
| 29 | She was then transferred to this centre . |
| 30 | She was then sent to our shared bedroom and I would smuggle in jam sandwiches with the crusts left on , her favourite . |