Example sentences of "she was [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was decided to be agreeable and unobtrusive . |
| 2 | Still … those recent moments along the track had been wonderful — while they 'd lasted — and she was learning to be thankful for small moments of joy . |
| 3 | She was bound to be sick before the last race , either then or on the road to the meeting , or on the road home . |
| 4 | She was seen to be afebrile with a tender rigid abdomen on admission to her local hospital . |
| 5 | She was beginning to be afraid , in fact , that she had drunk too much . |
| 6 | She was beginning to be more than a bit worried about the expenses involved in her escape , and hoped it would n't be too long before she could escape back to anonymity and London . |
| 7 | She was trying to be friendly , to show me that she , too , could be human and silly . |
| 8 | Either she was a Madonna and people did n't give her credit for being one , or else she was trying to be one and people were trying to stop her or possibly she was being forced to be one against her better judgement . |
| 9 | Fenella was thinking it , but she was trying to be sensible and practical . |
| 10 | She was said to be upset because she was too old to use the centre where the party was held in Whitley Bay . |
| 11 | She was said to be stable in Middlesbrough General Hospital last night , but no longer on a ventilator . |
| 12 | She was said to be callous , selfish , irresponsible . |
| 13 | This time , however , she came by low loader rather than under her own steam and although it had been laid most expertly by BR staff , the track she was unloaded onto was several hundred yards from the nearest railway line . |
| 14 | Perhaps she was meaning to be sympathetic . |
| 15 | Purification The mother had to be purified because she was considered to be unclean . |
| 16 | Now she was going to be nasty . |
| 17 | Always rang if she was going to be late , always let them know exactly where she was . |
| 18 | Branches clawed at her hair and she felt like she had done years ago , waiting for Jezrael to catch up , knowing she was going to be late for school , but she could n't leave her sister to struggle in on her own . |
| 19 | At this rate she was going to be late for her appointment ! |
| 20 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 21 | She did n't really know if she was going to be able to take any more , and still give a worthwhile performance . |
| 22 | And without filling the giant-sized hole in her stomach there was no way she was going to be able to go off to sleep . |
| 23 | Some of the rides made Jane feel dizzy and there was one awful moment on the Pirate Ship when she thought she was going to be sick ! |
| 24 | She felt as though she was going to be sick . |
| 25 | She was going to be sick . |
| 26 | Feeling in no way threatened by Ven , or anybody else , she then began to realise that if she was going to be assertive about anything , then it was about Ven Gajdusek answering one or two questions . |
| 27 | After all , she was going to be alone this evening . |
| 28 | First of all , she was going to be hyper-hyper-intelligent . |
| 29 | She was going to be difficult to kill , no question about it , thought Henry . |
| 30 | She was held to be guilty of theft . |