Example sentences of "she [was/were] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A degree of light emanated from the silently hurtling water , which she felt as a force urging her forward , as though she were in its grip and swept along with it . |
| 2 | And then he went and sat on the blue dralon chair in the immaculate drawing-room , the bottle of scotch at his side , Rose 's dress draped carefully along the sofa as if she were in it and alive . |
| 3 | She was in its heart . |
| 4 | The plaintiff was just eighteen at the time she was in her A level year at school . |
| 5 | Well at the time she was in her very late thirties , schoolteacher . |
| 6 | Anyway , there she was in her own room , and no call if she did n't want to open the door to anyone , not even her husband . ’ |
| 7 | Shriver , good humoured as she was in her quarter final defeat , played ‘ yesterday 's ’ tennis . |
| 8 | By the time she returned from travelling the world , she was in her mid-twenties . |
| 9 | She was in her late thirties , lean and strong , too neat and plain of feature ever to have been beautiful but her large grey eyes were intelligent and full of wilfulness and energy . |
| 10 | ‘ A few months ago she was in her full health and it was you we were worried about , ’ Michael cried . |
| 11 | She was in her element with doctors , hospitals , osteopaths , chiropractors , acupuncture ( health by a thousand pricks ) and was never able to do very much because ( she said ) of her ‘ small bones ’ . |
| 12 | When interviewed by the Standard in 1982 for the 75th Anniversary Celebrations , Lorna Bloxam recalled her biking years in about 1910 when she was in her early teens and lived by Henley bridge . |
| 13 | But she was in her bed , all right . ’ |
| 14 | The old lady ‘ was in our house more often than she was in her own . ’ |
| 15 | One night , when she was in her nineties , she failed to reappear and the labourer 's wife went out to look for her : |
| 16 | When she was in her room , when The Bar was closed , she had a recurring fantasy in which Boy 's black hair was long enough to reach down to his waist . |
| 17 | Psychologist Mary Russell never even thought about reincarnation until she was in her late 30s , when her life seemed to be a complete mess . |
| 18 | As for that other one , which was how he now alluded to the daughter he had always doted on , she was in her room and there she would stay until she saw sense . |
| 19 | She was to become the sort of opportunist that John would have admired : her second marriage was bigamous and when she was in her sixties she returned to Britain from America in order to marry a consultant surgeon at Bart 's Hospital . |
| 20 | Best selling author Lena Kennedy did n't start writing her books about the old days in the East End of London until she was in her 60s , and painter Beryl Cooke also found fame in later life . |
| 21 | It was n't until she was in her late twenties that the spots struck . |
| 22 | ‘ But I think because she was in her big sister 's band , Debbi always felt very frustrated . |
| 23 | She was in her dressing gown and her face was pink and puffed from crying . |
| 24 | Mrs Ellis , 41 , a nurse at St Michael 's and Courtaulds Hospitals in the town , said she was in her garden with her husband Chris and their two children , Katharyn , 12 , and Matthew , nine , when the incident happened . |
| 25 | She was in her fifties , I suppose . |
| 26 | She was in her first-floor sitting room , secure in her easy chair , when she heard the first sirens , saw the first police cars turn into her street . |
| 27 | Oxford G–AITF as she was in her days with Air Service Training at Perth , Scotland , as an instructional airframe in the early 1960s . |
| 28 | The men formed a circle round her ; she did n't know where she was in her hooded world . |
| 29 | She herself had campaigned for women 's rights with the suffragette movement when she was in her teens and he had listened to her tales of the marches and the abuse the women suffered at the hands of many people . |
| 30 | Incongruously , ridiculously , here in this Underground station , with musicians she did not know , playing to an unknown , only occasionally apprecia-tive and ever-shifting audience , she was in her own element . |