Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun sg] and she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved down one of the long aisles ; the body of the hall was in darkness and she stumbled a little as the floor sloped downwards . |
| 2 | ‘ You must listen to this , ’ said Hugo , and Valerie , out of simple love , stopped writing and listened , though Lover at the Gate was in mid-flow and she did not want her concentration spoiled : what she now put on the page was beginning to have the quality of automatic writing : she feared the cutting-in of her own rationality : doubt would come with it , and hesitation . |
| 3 | She put the telephone down on the floor and knelt beside it , facing Shildon and saying Tavett was in trouble and she had to make some calls . |
| 4 | She laughed again and Claudia was glad her attention was on Roman and she did n't see how upset her twin was by her remarks . |
| 5 | One day she was at Serenity and she met a boy from the Holy Sepulchre of the Expanded Neurosphere , and he told her she did n't have to be an imaginary princess any more . |