Example sentences of "[conj] she was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 2 | McLeish carried over a loaded tray , and ate ravenously , noting with interest that Catherine Crane had an equally good appetite , though it was not obvious where she was putting it on that slim frame . |
| 3 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 4 | Chrissie admits that these came from the store restaurant 's stocks , but claims that she was given them by Fred , the chef , in return for her helping out over her lunch break in the kitchen , which was short handed . |
| 5 | Chrissie admitted that these came from the store restaurant 's stocks , but claimed that she was given them by Fred — , the chef , in return for her helping out over her lunch break in the kitchen , which was short-handed . |
| 6 | She already felt that she was learning something about art . |
| 7 | Defries realized that she was holding something in her right hand . |
| 8 | So she held back on her questioning , though she somehow found that she was telling him of her love of music and how Janáček 's lively sixth movement was one of her particular favourites . |
| 9 | She hated watching sport normally , but Jack guessed that she was taking none of it in . |
| 10 | Her portrayal was so convincing that she was offered nothing but bitch characters . |
| 11 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 12 | Now , all that mattered was that she was following him up the stairs to an elegant Georgian town house . |
| 13 | But not too many of those who reckoned she should be pitting herself alongside the professionals recognised that she was putting herself through a far tougher ordeal by playing in a junior championship where she had everything to lose , nothing to gain . |
| 14 | Her decision was extremely painful , for Beatrice believed ( as it happened incorrectly ) that she was committing herself to a celibate life for ever : |
| 15 | She had had no experience of domestic affairs , but she managed well enough , and had the satisfaction of knowing that she was doing something for Susan , after all . |
| 16 | Still peering from the corner of his eye , Frankie stared at her breasts for a long time before he realized with a jolt that she was observing him through the mirror . |
| 17 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 18 | IT would have to be demonstrated , for example , that she was placing them in moral or physical danger with her lifestyle . ’ |
| 19 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 20 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 21 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 22 | We were sitting there and she was telling me about Brian . |
| 23 | It was a song Mr Malik sang , and she was singing it to what must , surely , be his words . |
| 24 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
| 25 | ‘ The first time I met Samantha , ’ Bob says , ‘ I 'll never forget this , she was surrounded by these six guys and she was funking herself with a vibrator . |
| 26 | I 've put in stuff for her from all over , and she always thanks me , not like she was paying me at all . |
| 27 | Gaston , the committee man , who had been eyeing Ingrid the entire evening , trying to discern if she was wearing anything at all under the gold waistcoat , hurried over and pulled her to her feet . |
| 28 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 29 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 30 | The lecherous Cohn once used his intercom to address an embarrassed starlet when he asked her if she was keeping herself in a state of sexual readiness for him . |