Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them . |
| 2 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 3 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 4 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 5 | Then , before she realised it , they had stopped and she was pushed down to the ground next to Sung , her back to him . |
| 6 | As for Mary Alice , she was flown back to the USA in June 1945 , some 11 months after her original crew . |
| 7 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 8 | As I understood it she was flying back to the States tomorrow . ’ |
| 9 | When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance . |
| 10 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 11 | He was giving her orders : she was to hold on to the edge of the pool and breathe deeply in and out . |
| 12 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 13 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 14 | Somewhere below , only a few minutes away but in another world completely , she was running back to the house , Simon in hot pursuit . |
| 15 | Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever . |
| 16 | She was going back to the knacker 's . |
| 17 | Emily left me , mouthing as she went out of the door that she was going back to the office . |
| 18 | Then , head bent , she was hurrying back to the villa , suddenly knowing in her heart what had to be done . |
| 19 | When she was allowed through to the nave she discovered dancers rehearsing a performance and robed guides discouraging visitors from proceeding to the site of St Thomas 's shrine because their passage disturbed the troupe . |
| 20 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 21 | Bernadette : With my other babies they 've mostly left them quite close to me , but she was put over to the side , the doctor was slow in coming , and she went over and checked her over , instead of coming to speak to me as they usually do — she went out again and did n't even look at me [ laughs ] … |
| 22 | But she was trotting off to the churchyard to clean the stone the other day . |
| 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 | Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling . |
| 25 | In 1935 she was sold on to the ironstone industry in the Cranford area and ended her working life at Byfield in 1963 — ironically not very far from the GCR . |
| 26 | One morning as she was rushing back to the changing rooms one of the models slipped and twisted her ankle . |
| 27 | Several months ago she was enticed back to the Lion in partnership with Mr Ashworth . |
| 28 | The next day she was signed up to the top model agency Storm — and the day after that she started her modelling career . |
| 29 | As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed . |
| 30 | And then a taxi stopped at her frantic signalling , and she was collapsing on to the slippery leather seat with a surge of relief that banished all other thoughts from her mind . |