Example sentences of "[conj] she [was/were] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Rogers , twice Irish girls champion , got her nose in front at the eighth but was forced to concede the tenth where her second overshot the green into very thick rough and the twelfth where she was in a greenside bunker . |
| 2 | Having observed his or her own former situation by means of regression , the patent will then during the course of a counselling session have the opportunity to discuss what happened ( something that may never have been done before ) , to express anger at the perpetrator and possibly at others who may have guessed what was going on but perhaps did nothing to prevent it , and to understand that he or she was in no way to blame for what occurred . |
| 3 | professional advice about Elizabeth 's unhappiness was that she was in a state of ‘ mourning ’ and that time would improve matters . |
| 4 | Suddenly , and for almost the first time in her life , apart from in her dreams , Marie felt that she was in a position of power . |
| 5 | The two had a son , Neville , and it was not until after the war years that she was in a position to resume her golfing career . |
| 6 | It was strange that she was in no way jealous of Jessie being her father 's choice for betterment , because Jessie herself had n't wanted to go to the Secretarial School , nor had her mother wanted her to go . |
| 7 | Although she was astute enough to understand this on a logical basis , it took several sessions of counselling and therapy to convince Myra 's subconscious mind that she was in no way to blame and that she had behaved naturally and in total innocence . |
| 8 | Diana felt that she was in no position to influence her husband 's behaviour . |
| 9 | She twisted her head from one side to the other , trying to avoid the determined approach of his sensual mouth , aware that she was in no position to move an inch . |
| 10 | They told Karen that she was in no danger now . |
| 11 | In Los Alamos the doctors told Karen that she was in no danger . |
| 12 | She should have told Mrs Trotter that she was in no condition to deliver forty dinners , obstructed at every turn by Miss Poraway . |
| 13 | As she looked down into that face on which all tears had long since dried , Louisa had the deranging sensation that she was in the presence of a dying woman . |
| 14 | This meant that she was in the clinic , she 'd had the scan , she was ovulating , her feet were up in stirrups — they needed my sample there and then . ’ |
| 15 | " She wrote that she was in the South of France , planning to hitch home . |
| 16 | Dimly , Mrs Palichuk perceived that she was in the way , and it hurt her . |
| 17 | It did n't much matter that she was in the junkroom of someone else 's home and that her position here was uncertain . |
| 18 | Waking very cold and aching , Perdita saw little red flames flickering across the great blue arch of sky and thought for a terrified second that she was in the middle of a forest fire . |
| 19 | Brenda , sure that she was in the right , held out — and was , indeed , banned . |
| 20 | Kate began to have the feeling that she was caught by forces stronger than her , that she was in the power of some strange vortex that was spinning her around so fast that she no longer knew how to keep control . |
| 21 | He remembered , from the one or two he 'd gone to with her , that she was in the habit of pocketing things and crunching large handfuls of crisps . |
| 22 | A lady traveller on the Exeter express told John Ruskin that she was in the carriage from which Turner put his head out in a rainstorm to record the scene mentally , and she saw the picture at the Royal Academy the next year , in 1844 . |
| 23 | Only at Wrexham were painful thoughts quite unexpectedly revived : Coleridge caught sight of Mary Evans , and discovered that she was in the town visiting her grandmother . |
| 24 | Now the old problem arose again : she found herself in new places and she was more interested in exploring them thoroughly than she was in the chick , even though she was at flying weight . |
| 25 | As he spoke , he moved the two benches outwards , so she was in the position he had described : her body bound to the table , her legs spread wide on the two benches like an inverted Y. In spite of the darkness , she knew that her quim was now utterly exposed and helpless before him . |
| 26 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |
| 27 | Painfully , Christine swung her legs to one side until she was in a sitting position . |
| 28 | She still , at this point , disliked the songs and it was n't until she was in the studio and involved that she found a passionate core to the music and began to revel in it . |
| 29 | It was not until she was in the sitting room , leaning forward to put her precious parcel on a table , that she realized with a flash of panic that she was not alone . |
| 30 | After all , she did n't own Piers Morrison , he could talk to just whomever he pleased , and she was in no mood to hear any amused remarks from him afterwards about jealousy . |