Example sentences of "she [was/were] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she were in Amy 's position , how much would it matter ? |
| 2 | As she were in a hurry an' it were ready I said you 'd send on t' bill . ’ |
| 3 | She herself felt curiously unreal , as though she were in the midst of a dream . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | it was almost as if she were in charge . |
| 6 | His grand-daughter , Tatyana Tolstaya ( born in 1951 ) , writes sometimes as if she were in direct communication with the ghosts of the world that vanished when Alexei Nikolaevich was still a young man . |
| 7 | If she were in bed , none of them would happen . |
| 8 | She moved as if she were in a dream , wading through viscous liquid . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | word clear and comprehensible as if she were in the front row of the stalls . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Suppose , suppose , she were in a state of mortal sin ? |
| 13 | It was as though she were in some sort of a trance , a pallid undertone to the sun-dark skin , the nostrils of that straight nose slightly flared ; even the jaw seemed to have lost some of its determined thrust . |
| 14 | It was as though she were in a sexual frenzy , completely transported by the excitement of her passion . |
| 15 | A degree of light emanated from the silently hurtling water , which she felt as a force urging her forward , as though she were in its grip and swept along with it . |
| 16 | She felt as if she were in the middle of a minefield . |
| 17 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 18 | A short time later , while riding beside Silas , Lucy felt as if she were in a dream . |
| 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 then he went and sat on the blue dralon chair in the immaculate drawing-room , the bottle of scotch at his side , Rose 's dress draped carefully along the sofa as if she were in it and alive . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | And she were in that bedroom with us , the there were t there were dad , me , Barbara and Angela . |
| 23 | He told them to leave her be , she was in a better state to understand him than anyone else there . |
| 24 | Anyway , there she was in her own room , and no call if she did n't want to open the door to anyone , not even her husband . ’ |
| 25 | Brenda says she was in a coma by the time they got her into the hospital . |
| 26 | ‘ She was in an impossible situation , I … ’ |
| 27 | Always she neglected her friends when she was In Love , and regretted it afterwards . |
| 28 | OK , suppose she was In Love with Dionne . |
| 29 | Corfu the first time , years ago , the summer of Laurie Anderson and O Superman ; the summer she was in love with a difference . |
| 30 | She decided to treat herself as good as she would if she was In Love with Jay . |