Example sentences of "she was [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | She was wearing a meshfoil microskirt , a Miss Piggy wig and strawberry pasties , her usual uniform . |
| 62 | She was wearing a bandage , or seemed to be , but it was on her arm , not her leg . |
| 63 | She was wearing a tweed check suit in shades of lovat green and brown and she did n't want his sticky fingers on it — or worse . |
| 64 | He noticed she was wearing a string of cheap pearls about her neck . |
| 65 | Today — such muddles often happened — she was wearing a cardigan of matted grey wool belonging to a much smaller and slighter inmate , a long brown skirt , brown stockings that wrinkled round her still-narrow ankles , and blue check carpet slippers . |
| 66 | She was wearing a coat over her night-dress . |
| 67 | On the day of the interviews I noticed that Jenny Ball was smartly dressed and in particular I also saw that she was wearing a wedding ring ; an item of jewellery that she seldom wore when I saw her in school on other days . |
| 68 | She was wearing a wedding dress made of rich material . |
| 69 | This time , she was wearing a hat , which pulled her face back , somehow , and made a line round it , so that she looked older than she had the other night . |
| 70 | She was wearing a hat , you know . ’ |
| 71 | She says she does n't think she was wearing a hat with a chin strap . |
| 72 | She was wearing a linen suit the colour of pale watercress soup , with the skirt cut just above the knee . |
| 73 | She was wearing a linen jacket , underneath that a blouse and blue jeans . |
| 74 | She was wearing a chartreuse dress that looked as if it had been spray-painted on . |
| 75 | She was reading a book as she sunbathed on the beach at Umgababa on Tuesday , when two teenagers , armed with a knife and screwdriver , pounced . |
| 76 | When he came into the house she was reading a book she had brought with her and she did n't even look up . |
| 77 | Lucy lit another cigarette , drank her wine , and her voice came out as if she was reading a script . |
| 78 | She crouched before a coffee table on which rested , between a wine bottle and a dirty plate , a copy of Hedda Gabler ; imagining she was feeding a manuscript into a stove , she murmured fiercely : ‘ I am burning our child , I am burning our child ! ’ |
| 79 | Mrs Chambers must think she was feeding a navvy ! |
| 80 | It seemed as if she was facing a sea of glittering gowns . |
| 81 | Trouble was , if she appeared downstairs too soon it would look as if she was cadging a lift , and if she arrived too late they would have gone without her — and then how would she summon up the courage to go at all ? |
| 82 | Fearful , utterly unaware now of the two men near by , she let her eyes move slowly up the document , seeing other names but only vaguely noting that she was scanning a list of some sort . |
| 83 | She was given a minute 's grace , then the phone rang . |
| 84 | She was given a year 's conditional discharge by Bicester Magistrates and ordered to pay a hundred pounds in costs and sixty pounds compensation . |
| 85 | She was given a year 's supervision order . |
| 86 | She was given a dose of Hyper . |
| 87 | Amnesty International also intervened on her behalf and only days before she was due to leave , she was given a passport . |
| 88 | She was given a test dose of 10 mg intramuscular gold ( myocrisin ) with no major side effects . |
| 89 | She was given a sun dial , two large planters , garden centre tokens and flowers . |
| 90 | Inside , at a huge oak table in a stone dining-hall , dark-walled and tiled , she was given a bowl of hot chocolate , a huge piece of French bread , unsalted butter ( again the first ) and confiture aux cerises . |