Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] she [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost as if someone were keeping her away from trouble . |
| 2 | Hilary was depressed at your long absence ; I was cheering her up with photographs of your sporting exploits , which hang , as you know , in the master bedroom . |
| 3 | At her worst , on the third night , faint from lack of food , her throat parched with thirst , she had a crazy idea that the storm was singling her out for punishment , was expending its venom to get at her . |
| 4 | and erm she li she 's in Egham and her boyfriend came down and was driving her back to Sheffield and then driving back again here on Monday so she got a free journey home . |
| 5 | ‘ Ruggiero was driving her back from Rome late one night , and somehow the car left the road and ended up against a tree . |
| 6 | He was holding her there without duress , pinning her where she sat by the sheer magnetism of his physical presence . |
| 7 | The worst he could do was take her back to Brides Haven . |
| 8 | She need n't have worried ; a brief note from Dana on the kitchen table said that Roman was taking her out to dinner and that she was not to wait up , neither was she to wake Dana in the morning ; she would come for her fitting in the afternoon . |
| 9 | He was scrutinising her openly in return . |