Example sentences of "[that] she was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother had had a fit when Carolyn admitted that she was living on social security . |
| 2 | DEFIANT Fergie is NOT sorry that she was pictured in topless romps with Texan John Bryan , her mother revealed last night . |
| 3 | She had once told Stephanie , whom she trusted , though it did not come easily to her to make confidences to her daughters , that she was possessed by physical loathing of Lucas Simmonds and of what contact — she was not specific — he might have had with her son . |
| 4 | I must point out that she was selected with considerable care . |
| 5 | She had a curious feeling that greater good fortune would yet be hers , that she was destined for high places . |
| 6 | The firm set of Niall Grant 's mouth suggested that she was treading on dangerous ground . |
| 7 | Now that she was lying against white sheets her form was visible , albeit vaguely . |
| 8 | At the trial , the mother 's defence was that she was haunted by black magic and voodoo , and a voice had commanded her to ‘ Strangle ! |
| 9 | In 1891 , after she learned that she was suffering from progressive myopia and would have to give up painting , embroidery , and other close work , she turned whole-heartedly to garden designing . |
| 10 | A respectable woman who has been ravished would hardly feel that she was vindicated by being told that her assailant must go unpunished because he believed , quite unreasonably , that she was consenting to sexual intercourse with him . |
| 11 | But it is encapsulated in the phrase that she was subjected to sadistic behaviour over a lengthy period of time which she accepted because she was in love with him . |