Example sentences of "she was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she had admitted the hope , she was inundated by whole floods of desire ; the project took life in her mind , the trees grew leaves , the cathedrals grew towers and arches , the river flowed beneath its bridges . |
| 2 | She was transferred to intensive care , her breathing gave great concern and therefore she was put on a br ventilator . |
| 3 | In December nineteen eighty seven she was transferred from intensive care to a main ward , but it was not until February nineteen eighty eight that she fully emerged from coma . |
| 4 | She was joined by Betsy M. Bryan , Alexander Badawy Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at The Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , who since 1984 has been collecting material on the position of women in New Kingdom society . |
| 5 | She took me up to see her room , which she had to herself until she was joined by another-middle aged woman without children . |
| 6 | She was joined by leading actor Robert Downey Jnr and wife Debbie in Leicester Square , London . |
| 7 | She was covered with woven skins , but we stripped her ; |
| 8 | She was covered in cold sweat , her chest heaving . |
| 9 | She was treated with nebulised salbutamol , which relieved the symptoms , and was reassured and asked to attend the general medical unit of her hospital for follow up . |
| 10 | She was treated with elemental diet ( E 028 , Scientific Hospital Supplies , Liverpool ) and blood transfusion , as well as further prednisolone and sulphasalazine . |
| 11 | She was drowning in sensory pleasure as his mouth moved from hers to place its erotic touch on her eyelids , her temples , followed the high line of her sculptured cheekbone , every movement speaking of his possessive need , his mounting passion , his overriding desire to invade and conquer her . |
| 12 | DEFIANT Fergie is NOT sorry that she was pictured in topless romps with Texan John Bryan , her mother revealed last night . |
| 13 | Occasionally he came in on her while she was engaged in odd projects — dressing up and prancing round their small bedroom , or reciting . |
| 14 | While Naomi reads a fat paperback in the parked taxi outside , the psychotherapist ( Mitteleuropean Earth Mother , in a book-lined Hampstead house that smells of the world 's best coffee ) poses questions on everything from Rainbow 's grief at her parents ' early deaths to how often she was scolded in primary school . |
| 15 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 16 | In a new chapter of his book Diana : Her True Story , Morton says friends of Diana told him she was destroyed by intense coverage of her taped phone call with James Gilbey . |
| 17 | Melody sounded as though she was speaking through chattering teeth and he climbed the ladder , carefully balancing pie and ale . |
| 18 | She was speaking at random , saying anything at all , only to try to distract this acute old woman from saying what was clearly in her mind . |
| 19 | She was pipped by reluctant newcomer Jane Lester of Basildon Savacentre who was so doubtful of her abilities that she virtually had to be carried up to the oche . |
| 20 | Later , released from the spell of that voice , she was plagued by niggling incredulity . |
| 21 | I found her standing by the sink , which she was filling with hot water . |
| 22 | She was loved in vain by W. B. Yeats [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | I was n't sure whether she was referring to regional unemployment figures or the fact that I claimed to have actually worked for once . |
| 24 | Undoubtedly , she was hated by countless millions of ordinary Chinese . |
| 25 | Again she was shaken by uncontrollable spasms . |
| 26 | She considered her fear , and with it the probability that before long Johnny would find her again , and she was shaken by unreasoning panic . |
| 27 | It was as if she was bound by silken cords , soft yet irresistibly strong . |
| 28 | Her mother had had a fit when Carolyn admitted that she was living on social security . |
| 29 | But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold . |
| 30 | She was seated in blue sky , the clouds at her back , hearing the church bells roll out the quarter-hour . |