Example sentences of "[vb past] she [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she woke up , she found she was at home with him at last . ’ |
| 2 | Suddenly Sophie found she was in deep water . |
| 3 | The greeter was grouchy at seven ; I hate to think how nettled she was by ten . |
| 4 | Mrs Busuttil went to Middlesbrough General Hospital on January 31 because she believed she was in labour . |
| 5 | And we went all round the bed and we went all round outside , we went all through the back smelt outside Jane 's door in case she 'd she were on fire could n't find nothing , sat down and read , he said it 's cos the telly 's on and I expect it 's damp and it 's you know |
| 6 | At nights he imagined she was beside him in bed , naked and wanton , submitting eagerly to his advances . |
| 7 | Brian , emerging from the bathroom , heard his wife talking and imagined she was with Camille , thus he was surprised to find her alone . |
| 8 | She had already discovered to her cost just how strongly attracted she was to him on a physical level . |
| 9 | A well-preserved and slightly more elaborate example is a large limestone statuette in the Louvre ( fig. 12 ) , known as the Lady of Auxerre since when first noticed she was in the museum there . |
| 10 | For a minute she did n't know where she was and , as she realised she was at the farm , fear stayed firmly with her . |
| 11 | She realised she was on her own ; George must be expecting a true Conflict Situation if he was already saving his last bullet for himself . |
| 12 | But police have told Adrian that even though the driver admitted she was in the wrong , she 's unlikely to be prosecuted . |
| 13 | As the news of Diana 's snubs emerged , Royal author Andrew Morton claimed she was on the verge of leaving the Royal Family . |
| 14 | They guessed she was on a bad trip and moved in swiftly before she could hurt herself . |
| 15 | They 'd have put her in the freak show , confessing how misled she was by capitalist gold . |
| 16 | The Labour leader said that in her supposed splendid isolation from Europe , Margaret Thatcher showed she was from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy . |
| 17 | He sensed she was in a position to tell him . |
| 18 | She felt a little exposed and felt her way along until she discovered she was on a ledge . |
| 19 | I heard she was in hospital . |
| 20 | Whoever decided she was worth kidnapping got their information from your daughter herself . ’ |
| 21 | That meant she was to be left with Barbara Coleman and Barbara Coleman was tiresome company . |
| 22 | He looked at Catherine Crane 's feet and saw she was in a similar situation . |
| 23 | The night before she had had calmly ‘ booked out ’ a personal protection weapon after , it is understood , telling a senior member of staff that she feared she was under surveillance from paramilitaries . |
| 24 | But she felt she was under orders ( there was some comfort in that ) to spend the evening in the wilderness . |
| 25 | At the time , Avril felt she was at a crossroads in her life . |
| 26 | For the rest of that day , Charlotte felt she was at one remove from reality , viewing events through an invisible screen equipped to filter out the extremes of sensation . |
| 27 | He felt she was after entrapping him . |
| 28 | As the light of the friendly flames played over their faces , Clare felt she was in a dream world where time was suspended . |
| 29 | Tess felt she was in his way and went to the kitchen . |
| 30 | Juliet felt she was in another world , she felt as though she were intoxicated . |