Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it is n't true , then of course she 's for a flogging and prison : or worse . ’ |
| 2 | At the moment she 's on an extended holiday . ’ |
| 3 | From that minute she was in a whirl . |
| 4 | By 2 p.m. that day she was in a very anxious state and accepted the social worker 's offer of a short stay bed on a trial basis to help her make a decision . |
| 5 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 6 | By the next morning she was in a dangerous fever , and Mrs Maylie and Oliver were afraid she might die . |
| 7 | All the time she is in a mindless frenzy , he is thinking , comparing , and second-guessing . |
| 8 | We were unable to meet with the Chairwoman of the Iraqi Women 's Federation , Manal Younis , as at the time she was on a ship bound for Iraq with a cargo of medicines and milk . |
| 9 | Mindless of the fact she was in a flannel nightie , and had a green face , she looked quite prepared to go den the dragon . |