Example sentences of "she was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he continued to advance , for she was accusing him of going out of his mind . |
| 2 | Now she was accusing me in front of a stranger . |
| 3 | In the first place , she was accusing herself of hypocrisy . |
| 4 | Mandy Winston who claimed she was sacked by Oldham Crompton Batteries because she was pregnant has been awarded £5,798 by a tribunal . |
| 5 | After her third attempt she was sacked . |
| 6 | Miss Haywood , 32 , claims she was sacked from her £9,000-a-year job in January for rejecting Mr Pointer . |
| 7 | A HOSPITAL consultant who claimed she was sacked after speaking out against nursing shortages won her appeal against dismissal yesterday . |
| 8 | It became clear she was on holiday , and when she returned to work a disciplinary hearing was held and she was sacked . |
| 9 | SOPHIE B. HAWKINS landed her first big break after she was sacked by pop rival Bryan Ferry . |
| 10 | Alison Taylor , the former Gwynedd social worker who says she was sacked for speaking out about the abuses in care , told Community Care last week that she was concerned both at the slow progress of the investigations and the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute certain individuals on grounds of insufficient evidence . |
| 11 | A woman I spoke to in Coventry lives with her two children and husband , had worked as a cashier , a canteen assistant , a barmaid and a bingo cashier until she was sacked for organising a union . |
| 12 | Val Smith , 35 , who worked for the company for 19 years before she was sacked , said : ‘ Closure has always been on the cards . |
| 13 | Michelle Dixon had claimed she was sacked from the massive Trees Park Village home in Middleton St George near Darlington after expressing concern over allegations of mice and cockroaches on the premises . |
| 14 | A SHOPWORKER who claimed she was sacked for refusing to work on Sundays won a claim for unfair dismissal at a Hull industrial tribunal yesterday . |
| 15 | But he added that the complaint by Mrs Taylor that she was sacked because she refused to work on Sundays was not accepted by the tribunal . |
| 16 | She was sacked after allegedly giving police information on union membership details . |
| 17 | She said she was sacked from her job on Wednesday after trying to help another member of staff she said Mrs Jonker had threatened to sack . |
| 18 | With her uplifted left foot she was shoving the next foster mother square in the mouth . |
| 19 | She was organising the next bout , to take place soon after the election , shortly before she died . |
| 20 | When I got outside I found Mum in the yard , waving her arms about and giving directions to the neighbours whom she was organising for the party . |
| 21 | If the women had been less busy she might have been seen while she was exploring , but with Lady Marion 's own baby due soon they had plenty of fine weaving and sewing to occupy their eyes . |
| 22 | While there may be much to be said for the views expressed in this passage it seems to me with all respect to Wilson J. that she was stating what she thought the law ought to be rather than what it is . |
| 23 | She sounded as though she was stating a fact . |
| 24 | Once she had admitted the hope , she was inundated by whole floods of desire ; the project took life in her mind , the trees grew leaves , the cathedrals grew towers and arches , the river flowed beneath its bridges . |
| 25 | She was christened Vicky . |
| 26 | ‘ Thank Heavens for William , ’ she has since said as it meant she could now quite properly forsake the pills she was proffered by arguing that she did not want to risk physical or mental deformity in the baby she was carrying . |
| 27 | On occasions , however , she was observed to say very quietly ‘ Good boy , off you go and play now ’ . |
| 28 | Researchers found that on a day when an ‘ insular ’ mother reported having an argument with another adult before she was observed at home with her child , she was more likely to behave unpleasantly towards her child ( Wahler and Graves 1983 ) . |
| 29 | Probably never even occurred to her that she was observed . |
| 30 | At this moment she did not care at all whether she was observed , or what the observer might think of her . |