Example sentences of "she [vb past] be at [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His head , she realised was at an odd angle . |
| 2 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 3 | She had been at a Women 's Aid conference in London all weekend , and she was tired and depressed . |
| 4 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 5 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 6 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 7 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 8 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 9 | She retreated round the stall ; she had been at the front , helping a customer to choose something from what remained unsold . |