Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pandora , the first woman of Greek myth — as described by Hesiod — is made out of earth ; at Zeus 's command she was fashioned out of clay to be the instrument of divine retribution . |
| 2 | She put the tray she was carrying down on the wrought iron table . |
| 3 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |
| 4 | He thought suddenly of how she must look , seen from inside the kitchen she was leaning out of ; an ugly sexual idea occurred to him , and he looked about for the big black BMW bike , but it was n't there . |
| 5 | Maggie 's outrage at this callous remark was somewhat offset by the fact that he had rescued her , and in any case she was moving off to Ana who was sitting looking very shaky . |
| 6 | Although T. never became a member of the sect she was brought up in accordance with its tenets . |
| 7 | " These belong to the boy-friend she was messing about with at the dance . |
| 8 | She 'd told her husband she was going out for a walk with their pet dog , Kirsty , when she was found the dog was still clinging to her . |
| 9 | The next minute she was leaping up from the bed , striding across the room and snatching the door open . |
| 10 | The next minute she was running out of the yard and into the street again and into the shelter of the doorway leading into the hat shop . |
| 11 | Frances Maidment has vivid memories of the day she was run over by a stolen car . |
| 12 | The next day she was signed up to the top model agency Storm — and the day after that she started her modelling career . |
| 13 | I actually hear Lisa the other night she was coming out of the bath , oh she said , the bath 's cold . |
| 14 | In fact , immediately after the launching she was hauled out of the water again and it was to be the following September before she was actually ready , even though an optimistic delivery for June had been promised . |
| 15 | ‘ Come on in , darling , ’ said the sharp little woman who was holding the door , screwing up her eyes shrewdly against the cigarette-smoke she was blowing out in order to speak . |
| 16 | As a tiny baby she was struck down by cancer which led to her losing an eye , and still faces further treatment . |
| 17 | Occasionally with him she had the sense she was going down through a hole in the floor . |
| 18 | It was what was in her immediate life she was fed up with — anything distant or in the past could bring out her interest . |
| 19 | Emily only then took in that the others were not swimming at all but standing on the bottom , and that the reason she was worn out from treading water was that she was a good eight or twelve inches shorter than the rest . |
| 20 | She forced Moran to dance and by the night 's end she was worn out by the single effort . |
| 21 | In February of this year she was locked up in chains after giving herself up . |
| 22 | This was an idea she was to hold on to throughout the process . |
| 23 | With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss . |
| 24 | Again she was questioning why in creation she was giving in to his edicts , but , when she received nothing new in the way of an answer , rebellion set in . |
| 25 | the speaker may replace or refine expressions as he goes along : this man + this chap she was going out with |
| 26 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |