Example sentences of "that she [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Six million if you do n't mind , ’ was Christy Turlington 's reply to designer Valentino 's suggestion that she was worth a million dollars . |
| 2 | Through the glass she saw that she was on a shelf in the potion laboratory and the tall figure of her form-mistress was swirling out of the door . |
| 3 | Even in the worst hours she never gave any public impression that she was on the ropes . |
| 4 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 5 | As Martha tried on each garment in turn , Elizabeth could see that she was on the verge of tears . |
| 6 | She had n't told Alice , that she was on the hook . |
| 7 | Those who wished to appeal more directly to fascist or nazi ideas would criticize her Christian and anti-German ideas , while stating that she was on the right track . |
| 8 | The anxiety that she was on the point of doing so created a mounting sense of urgency during the 1870s . |
| 9 | But seeing the pleading in her eyes and aware that she was on the very brink of womanhood , he knew that he must give her her head and allow her to marry if that was what she wanted . |
| 10 | The grim knowledge that she was on the verge of suffocation appalled me and when she stumbled and almost fell the hand in my pocket gripped more tightly on the scalpel which I had taken from my car along with the adrenalin . |
| 11 | She might as well try Veronica 's house again , although she was disturbed to find that she was on the same track as hordes of newspaper reporters . |
| 12 | He must indeed have been utterly determined to thwart her — not to say very certain that she was on the train . |
| 13 | Joanna 's mouth opened and Sophie could see that she was on the verge of an angry retort but the situation was saved by the entry of the veterinary nurse , carrying a tray . |
| 14 | And Violet Hunt , loyally selling copies at half-price in her drawing room , confesses in her memoir I Have This to Say that she was at a loss to explain why the damned were damned , and the blest were blest . |
| 15 | At a party in Soho in 1914 Epstein was talking to Beatrice , who made it clear that she was at a loose end in her life . |
| 16 | She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful . |
| 17 | He assumed she was guilty , took it for granted that she was at the foot of everything , and that left a bitter taste in her mouth . |
| 18 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |
| 19 | ‘ … poor , almost illiterate … her pride was that she was of the Clanranald . |
| 20 | But there were very few people who could sympathise with her — the presumption was that she was fiercely cold-hearted , driven by greed and shallowness , a woman who had convinced herself that she was above the law . |
| 21 | She played those games — anything to keep the girls children as long as possible and not face up to the fact that she was over the hill . |
| 22 | Remorse and pain clutched at her , almost taking her breath away , and Jenna spun round and took to her heels , taking Alain by surprise so that she was through the door and down the stairs before he caught her . |
| 23 | Thereafter , she became a statutory tenant under section 2(1) ( a ) , and giving the words of that subsection their natural meaning , it would appear that she was by the Act to remain a statutory tenant so long as she continued in occupation of the dwelling-house . |
| 24 | His second was that she was from the estate agent 's . |
| 25 | Suddenly , and for almost the first time in her life , apart from in her dreams , Marie felt that she was in a position of power . |
| 26 | Afraid to move , she became aware that she was in a strange room , in a bed . |
| 27 | But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals . |
| 28 | professional advice about Elizabeth 's unhappiness was that she was in a state of ‘ mourning ’ and that time would improve matters . |
| 29 | Sitting up with a groan , she saw that she was in a small motor launch , approaching a wall into which a flight of stone steps had been built . |
| 30 | Well aware that she was in a public place , she tried to modify her voice ; only then Willis did n't always hear , and she had to try again a good deal louder . |