Example sentences of "she [was/were] telling the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered if she were telling the truth and decided that it hardly mattered . |
| 2 | Nigel did not risk arguing in case she was telling the truth . |
| 3 | She described carefully what had happened while she was in Horsfall Woods , and to prove she was telling the truth she showed the police-sergeant the torn envelope . |
| 4 | Joanna 's grandfather was also adamant she was telling the truth . |
| 5 | As she was telling the shuffling Grimauds that light thickens , and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood , a voice cried above her from the high scaffolding . |
| 6 | I hope she was telling the truth . |
| 7 | Charles was n't sure whether Jacqui believed she was telling the truth or not . |
| 8 | But in her face , as easily read as her mother 's , there was nothing devious ; she was telling the truth . |
| 9 | I was sure that she was telling the truth . |
| 10 | If they were right , there could be no doubt that she was telling the truth . |
| 11 | She was telling the truth , he could tell . |
| 12 | I was never able to establish whether she was telling the truth — virtually all the hijras I talked to shrouded the facts of their lives in a thick wrap of fantasies — but she was certainly from a middle-class background and spoke fluent English . |
| 13 | She was telling the truth ; Dana had given no hint of where they were going . |
| 14 | I mean , we did n't … he did n't … ’ she faltered , not at all sure she was telling the exact truth . |
| 15 | She was telling the truth , he was sure . |
| 16 | So erm , I think when she said she did n't know , er , she was telling the truth , and when asked her if she could explain to me , the very point that just asked me , again she said she , she could n't explain , she had , she she 'd agreed , agreed it was a paradox , that she did n't really know erm , why the book had never been published , or until nineteen sixty seven erm note , note that it , that it had been taken . |
| 17 | She was telling the truth there — I watched her reaction . ’ |
| 18 | But with Lindsey it was the smoking , the drinking staying out , out pretending she was babysitting erm ringing her daddy home and saying daddy can I babysit the night till half eleven and her daddy 's thinking that she was telling the truth |
| 19 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |