Example sentences of "[adv] she [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All at once she was wishing that Desmond was with her . |
| 2 | and like she was pointing different things out about this cemetery , and , I mean , you know , you there ca n't be many cemeteries |
| 3 | A day or two later she was to receive another surprise so far as animals were concerned when the ginger kitten , more adventurous than his brothers , found his way into the cabin where the Dalmatian was suckling her pups and joined in the free feast . |
| 4 | GILLIAN said how could we separate the two , because where did grammar come from if not from grammarians , and almost all grammarians — probably every single one of them for all she knew — were men , so what did we expect ; but mainly she was talking common sense . |
| 5 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 6 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
| 7 | Yeah well she was saying other day she 's he 's never away from her he 's a damn nuisance ! |
| 8 | He 'd told her about Valldemosa too , which was why she was taking this route to the north of the island . |
| 9 | He then launched an inquiry into why she was granted Legal Aid . |
| 10 | It happened before her mother 's death , when she was staying two weeks in the villa with her father . |
| 11 | Beverley 's achievements made the headlines last year when she was named outright winner and Science and Technology Section winner in the Cosmopolitan /Clairol Achievement Awards , a competition which aims to highlight women who have attained excellence in their professions . |
| 12 | Well I knew where she were heading that night that day she came to our house . |