Example sentences of "she [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mainly there was silence , in still greenish light , as if she were at the bottom of a pool . |
| 2 | Under his dark , quizzical gaze she felt as if she were under a microscope as she forced her legs to move , glued a polite smile on her lips . |
| 3 | ‘ She were with a man , zur . ’ |
| 4 | She began to wish she were on a surgical ward , but there was no chance of that happening within the next couple of months . |
| 5 | Her voice had a lilt to it as if she were on the verge of laughter . |
| 6 | For a moment she wished she were on the top floor of a very , very high skyscraper . |
| 7 | She 's knocking on , she were on the other day |
| 8 | As she were in a hurry an' it were ready I said you 'd send on t' bill . ’ |
| 9 | And feeling rather as if she were in a dream , she found herself sitting on a sofa in a quaint old-fashioned parlour , with Roger Kenyon , housebreaker , beside her . |
| 10 | She moved as if she were in a dream , wading through viscous liquid . |
| 11 | The nurse and the doctor left the room together for a moment and she grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him desperately , with an air-lock in her throat as though she were in a temper . |
| 12 | Suppose , suppose , she were in a state of mortal sin ? |
| 13 | It was as though she were in a sexual frenzy , completely transported by the excitement of her passion . |
| 14 | A short time later , while riding beside Silas , Lucy felt as if she were in a dream . |
| 15 | She herself felt curiously unreal , as though she were in the midst of a dream . |
| 16 | word clear and comprehensible as if she were in the front row of the stalls . |
| 17 | If Bernard was busy with flying lessons then she could be left in peace to get on with her work ; once he was back , if he wanted her to go somewhere with him , he would just say ‘ Come on Laura , we 're going , ’ and even if she were in the middle of a meeting , she would put away what she was doing and go . |
| 18 | She felt as if she were in the middle of a minefield . |
| 19 | She could n't bear this any longer , this toing and froing of his emotions , tossing her around as if she were in the eye of a tornado . |
| 20 | and explain the situation and the court said oh well we 'll take it to the magistrate 's then , then he had a letter two weeks later saying that it 's been thrown out again , they have n't got a case cos she were in the wrong , she 's never , ever have gone |
| 21 | The cancer had spread from the breast to various other areas including the bones and she was as a result suffering considerable pain which was not controlled by pain-killers . |
| 22 | At first , she was my running idol and then , when I got to know her , I realised how nice she was as a person as well . |
| 23 | The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling . |
| 24 | When she reached the summit , she was into the full brunt of the gale-force wind . |
| 25 | She was into the pyjamas . |
| 26 | Gazing down , Luke thought how beautiful she was despite the tear-stains and the swollen eyelids . |
| 27 | By the next evening , she was of a different mind . |
| 28 | She was of a certain age , so mebbe her painting days are over . |
| 29 | She was of a somewhat unusual design , rather narrow in the beam with a wide , bulbous underwater section midships , but in spite of a tendency to roll heavily in a beam sea she was a surprisingly good sea boat as she was to prove in the years that followed . |
| 30 | She was of a nervous disposition , Miss Kilspindie . |