Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Gray sounded as though she were trying to be fair . |
| 2 | Just for a moment she felt paralysed , as though she were bolted to her seat . |
| 3 | ‘ You looked wonderful , ’ she said , as if she were speaking to a ten-year-old after a school play . |
| 4 | She dreaded being immobile and physically dependent , and she certainly felt as if heavy weights were attached to her feet and her legs ; she felt as helpless as if she were buried to her neck in quicksand . |
| 5 | ‘ But if I tell you , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said , as though she were talking to an idiot , ‘ I 'm putting Liam 's life in worse danger . |
| 6 | She held out her hand , palm upwards now , and moved her head slowly as she looked at Aggie as if she were talking to a friend who would understand that a cousin of hers had not married beneath her . |
| 7 | It sounded as though she were talking to someone she knew well , or at least had dealt with previously , because she called her interlocutor ‘ Tonio ’ and smiled continuously as though engaged in invisible wooing and sometimes she laughed . |
| 8 | she were talking to herself in the end ! |
| 9 | When she were talking to us Aunty Mary you could hear some Yorkshire accent . |
| 10 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 11 | I mean the if she were going to be next week or something , she 'll maybe want to organize most of it herself . |
| 12 | She spoke as if she were admitting to a considerable lapse of manners on her part . |
| 13 | She was transferred to the department last October by Mr Newing after making her formal complaint and is now a detective . |
| 14 | That night Miss T. 's condition deteriorated and she was transferred to the intensive care unit . |
| 15 | She was transferred to Ops Section in 1985 . |
| 16 | Six months before she was due to be released she was assessed for admission to a special hospital , at the request of the prison psychiatrist ; two months later she was transferred to Moss Side hospital . |
| 17 | Within a few hours she was transferred to the neurosurgical unit at Addenbrookes hospital , Cambridge . |
| 18 | Later , she was transferred to another hospital in Middlesbrough and then to the Frenchay hospital in Bristol to be nearer her home in Chepstow , Gwent . |
| 19 | Her weight has dropped from 13 to seven stone and she was transferred to Rampton last August for medical treatment . |
| 20 | I mean she was in Park Hospital for so long and then she was transferred to a nursing home in Thornton . |
| 21 | She was transferred to intensive care , her breathing gave great concern and therefore she was put on a br ventilator . |
| 22 | She was decided to be agreeable and unobtrusive . |
| 23 | Purchased for preservation by Roger Crombleholme in 1964 , she was moved to the then embryonic Worth Valley Railway and was steamed in February 1968 . |
| 24 | USAF officials originally placed her at Edwards AFB but she was moved to the nearby March facility for restoration and display . |
| 25 | A DoH spokesman said : ‘ She frequently absconded , had a criminal record , and was mixing with undesirable people , yet she was moved to a home with even less security that the one she was in before . ’ |
| 26 | At her request as a Roman Catholic she was moved to Hope House , Cambridge . |
| 27 | Then she was moved to Newcastle General Hospital before returning to Gwent . |
| 28 | Hugo Varna 's showrooms occupied an entire floor of the 550 building and from the moment a potential client stepped out of the brass elevator she was treated to an ambience of unashamed luxury . |
| 29 | The next morning , when Delia Sutherland met the men before work , she was treated to opinion and advice . |
| 30 | She was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary by a Sea King from RAF Lossiemouth . |