Example sentences of "[verb] she [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 2 | How alarmed you must have been to discover she was receiving secret messages from some mysterious adviser , who also promised he would arrange her escape from Godstowe ! |
| 3 | It 's hard enough for him to accept Angy 's shabby treatment of Rick , her lies about the ring and her deceit in letting him think she was carrying another man 's child . |
| 4 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |
| 5 | she had fat knees in ginger stockings which kept straying apart … he could see she was wearing apricot knickers ; |
| 6 | yeah yeah well I know she was getting that way towards Christmas . |
| 7 | We were engaged , within weeks of marriage , when I discovered she was seeing another man . |
| 8 | I believe she was studying modern dance and had been a pupil of Mary Wigman , or of one of her disciples . |
| 9 | She was much disgusted and sent us a postcard saying she was developing webbed feet . |
| 10 | Juliet felt she was seeing another side to her mother , sensitive , vulnerable , and brave . |
| 11 | She taught in a health club ; aerobics , that kind of thing , and the next we knew she was wearing hot pants on a street corner in New York and strutting her stuff at the cars . |
| 12 | Sweeping waves of desire were pitching Sarella headlong to the point where she knew she was leaving common sense behind . |
| 13 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 14 | This sight brought her immediately down from her high , tragic pinnacle and made it seem all somehow cosier , as she thought she was sharing this music with such a wise and friendly dog . |