Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously very pleased with herself over this and Aggie 's reaction , she then brought it up so many times that Aggie was eventually forced to yell her into silence . |
| 2 | Instead she glanced about the small chamber off the hall into which she had been ushered , thanking whatever saint had been responsible that de Raimes was apparently going to keep her to himself . |
| 3 | Phoebe was not going to devour her in love and thus keep her safe from the great fangs and wraths of Fenna . |
| 4 | Then it began to dim as he realised , first , that it was Viola Angotti and , second , that he was not going to get her into the garbage can without a great deal of help . |
| 5 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 6 | And almost before he had finished speaking , his mouth forced itself over hers in a kiss that was clearly designed to punish her for that last remark . |
| 7 | He was n't trying to force her into anything . |
| 8 | No , he was n't trying to run her off the road ; he was trying to kill her . |
| 9 | ‘ I have always gone to see her at Kensington Palace — well , I was n't going to see her in a railway siding , was I ? |
| 10 | That ‘ little grey home in the west ’ idea was n't going to fool her for a minute ; it was easy to see that the man sitting next to her loved every minute of his fast-living , action-packed life . |
| 11 | After all , if the University was n't going to keep her on ( Swallow 's request had come , rather tactlessly , later in the very same day on which he had communicated this gloomy prognosis ) why should she put herself out to oblige the University ? |
| 12 | He was n't going to accuse her of being a fair-weather boatman . |
| 13 | I was n't going to fight her for it but I was so angry I could have killed her . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Goodnight , ’ — Boy was not sure if he was yet allowed to address her by her name , did n't know if he yet had that right . |
| 15 | He was very tempted to tell her about The Yellow Chair . |