Example sentences of "she [was/were] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her head was swimming and the floor seemed to be undulating as if she were at sea . |
| 2 | And he could only keep William and stop the court from giving Mummy custody if she were at home to help care for her brother . |
| 3 | Would it be far-fetched then to see Susan , if she were at home ringing up the Gay Byrne Radio Show to tell him what she saw ? |
| 4 | Mainly there was silence , in still greenish light , as if she were at the bottom of a pool . |
| 5 | she were at |
| 6 | What when she were at home ? |
| 7 | When she were at home |
| 8 | And Violet Hunt , loyally selling copies at half-price in her drawing room , confesses in her memoir I Have This to Say that she was at a loss to explain why the damned were damned , and the blest were blest . |
| 9 | She was in the birth canal , her head and ears were covered , she was at peace . |
| 10 | He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa . |
| 11 | She was at Addenbrooke 's Hospital , Cambridge , for assessment after an organ was located following an appeal . |
| 12 | She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful . |
| 13 | She was at pains to tell me — several times — that her male friends were divided into two groups . |
| 14 | She was at Capital for 18 months . |
| 15 | She was spending more and more time out — presumably she was at her other place . |
| 16 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 17 | Kylie enjoyed the performance so much that when a Melbourne football club asked members of the Neighbours cast to sing together at a charity concert , she was at the head of the queue to sign on . |
| 18 | She was at first misunderstood . |
| 19 | Taken by Mr Browning to view it — though since it had already been rented her approval was of no importance — she was at once charmed . |
| 20 | She was at first incensed at the idea — as if she had no more to do than pack up guns , as if it were an easy matter to send such an object at all , as if she existed only for his convenience — and then amused . |
| 21 | Born in 1864 , she was at one time wooed by the future Kaiser William but instead married the Russian Grand Duke Sergei , assassinated by anarchists in 1905 . |
| 22 | She was at the end of her patience . |
| 23 | She may have written some very promising poetry , but she had little personal support for her writing while she was at Edgcote . |
| 24 | She was at the rear of the house here when it was hit by something or other and knocked down . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She was at first sight a cheerful figure , a plump woman of 65 who wore a brightly patterned dress and whose curly hair showed around the front of her white scarf . |
| 27 | She was at this time secretary of the Londonderry branch of the NILP . |
| 28 | She was at least alive . |
| 29 | The ash raining down from it added to the misery of the people in the area — the Sir Robert Sale reported lumps the size of pumpkins falling on her decks , and she was at least forty kilometres distant . |
| 30 | She was at a stall ; they sell all kinds of things . |