Example sentences of "she was [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sounded as though she was stating a fact . |
| 2 | She was causing a stir in the yard , too , upsetting some folks , while making others laugh . |
| 3 | I 'm still not sure whether it was right or wrong , but it certainly got the reaction that was necessary that people appreciated that she was there , she was the Minister for Employment , and indeed she was causing a hell of a lot of problems for G M B members . |
| 4 | While she was framing a question that would not sound insultingly doubtful , Raffaella went on telling her story . |
| 5 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 6 | She was using a boot or shoe . |
| 7 | She was looking a bit like she had the morning of her hysterectomy . |
| 8 | She was looking a bit unwell actually she should n't be driving in her condition ! |
| 9 | He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ? |
| 10 | ‘ Not in that respect , but I did think she was looking a lot older . ’ |
| 11 | She was pushing a piece of toast around on her plate , wondering if she had imagined that arctic expression on his face just now , when she heard the door open . |
| 12 | She was drying a plate on a tea towel . |
| 13 | She ran into the fog and through the fog , its thickness a blessing now , although she was risking a fall and broken bones . |
| 14 | A murmur crossed the room like a wave when Blanche revealed she was seeking a man called Mr Kennedy , who had been due to meet Nicola Sharpe at nine o'clock on the night she was murdered . |
| 15 | erm , she was buying a house for whatever it was it certainly was a lot of money |
| 16 | She was filling a syringe . |
| 17 | Tassi was jailed but by then the slander of Artemesia 's name was complete : she was branded a whore , later married off to a stranger and banished from Rome . |
| 18 | She was helping a family in which there were five children . |
| 19 | Yet while Liz , the good daughter , the dutiful daughter , was taking a deep hot bath on New Year 's Eve before changing for her party , Shirley the rebel was serving up a hot meal for her mother in the old house in Abercorn Avenue before rushing back ( without appearing to rush ) to see what was happening in her own oven at home , where she was cooking a goose for her husband Cliff , his brother Steve and his wife Dora , her own mother- and father-in-law , and Dora 's Uncle Fred . |
| 20 | There was clearly a close friendship between them , and the Office gives a moving account of his efficacy in curing her of some kind of fit : He came and found her mute , but when he had seated himself at her window and they had eaten together , it chanced that at the end of the dinner the recluse wished to sleep , and oppressed by slumber her head drooped towards the window where God 's saint , Richard , was reclining , and as she was leaning a litle on that same Richard , suddenly , with a vehement onslaught , such a grave vexation took her in her sleep that she seemed to wish to break the window of her house , and in that strong vexation she awoke , her speech was restored , and with great devotion she broke out into the words " Gloria tibi Domine " , and the blessed Richard completed the verse which she had begun . |
| 21 | She was eating a cheese omelette and salad , which she was n't particularly interested in , when she owned to a feeling of restlessness . |
| 22 | And then while I was there she was eating a bit of chocolate cake , I mean she 's right in the kitchen , she come back in and said oh my god , I said what , she said I 've never seen anybody pinch a bit of chocolate cake , on a plate as fast in all my life , Ben did n't want it so she whipped his an' all like . |
| 23 | She was eating a sauce and sugar sandwich , made by shaking gobs of sauce on to a slice of white bread , sprinkling on white sugar and folding the slice over . |
| 24 | She was drinking a coffee made entirely with warm milk . |
| 25 | She was drinking a cup of tea , which Boldwood had just brought her . |
| 26 | She was made a baroness on the Hanover establishment by George IV in 1827 . |
| 27 | For this , and other sculptures in Ireland , she was made a Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1907 . |
| 28 | The following year she was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths , and in 1986 a Lady Liveryman . |
| 29 | She had never worked with him before , but the man 's name was something of a legend in the Oxfordshire Constabulary , and she was experiencing a sense of some disappointment . |
| 30 | Or maybe she was experiencing a sort of nightmare or hallucination — some kind of unfortunate delusion brought on by the overwhelming stress and strain of her job … ? |