Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked for them whenever she was on the Down . |
| 2 | Whenever she was in the vicinity of Roman , her manners deserted her . |
| 3 | She described how she was at a butcher 's shop when she noticed James had gone . |
| 4 | Catherine 's parents could not explain why she was in the car at the time . |
| 5 | Hartlepool schoolgirl Sarah Gascoigne , who missed the county championships when she was on a family holiday in America , was five seconds outside the qualifying time in the junior girls ' 800 metres with a time of 2:25.0 but she cleared 1.50 metres as a guest in the high jump , four centimetres inside the English Schools qualifying height . |
| 6 | ‘ He met a French schoolgirl called Falrinne when she was on a study course in Falmouth and was keen to see her again , ’ Mr Ian Taylor , prosecuting , said , ‘ but the only way he could get across the Channel was to take a boat . |
| 7 | She did everything loudly : loud sneeze , loud blowing of the nose , loud banging of doors when she was in a temper ; she would march ( she always marched ) into the kitchen , clattering all the saucepan lids to see what was for supper , saying ‘ brrr ’ and turning up the heater , turning on the telly , tapping her foot to the music . |
| 8 | So , shortly before noon , Molly trusted Mr Corduroy with her money and at six o'clock when she was in the kitchen opening a packet of cornflakes for Jacqueline 's supper the tap , left on , coughed discreetly and loosed off a generous gush of what looked to her like particularly clean and upmarket water . |
| 9 | Fenella stayed where she was for a moment , still staring up at the imprisoned Nuadu . |
| 10 | But Theda stayed where she was by the door , meeting Araminta 's malevolent stare with a fast-beating heart . |