Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whereas my wife could have learnt in what direction I was from her had she heard me , there is nothing I can learn from it . |
| 2 | A young woman who was with her hid when she heard the first shots and witnessed what happened . |
| 3 | Undry was in her mind , shedding troubled surges of light through deep darkness ; what am I going to do ? she wondered , and knew it was beyond her to decide anything . |
| 4 | They were her protectors , older , stronger , more clever and brave , and yet they had assumed it was for her to say what they were to do . |
| 5 | No one would know how hard it was for her to act the bride she would never be . |
| 6 | The New York Herald headlined ‘ These Girl 's Do n't Drink , Smoke or Flirt ’ and printed an article , attributed to Mary , in which she explained how difficult it was for her to maintain discipline in a society where young girls were surrounded on every side by such bad examples of free and easy ways in all walks of life . |
| 7 | It was unlike her to miss a heart condition in a special patient . |
| 8 | He was beside her holding her up but she pushed him away . |