Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] she [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridget 's hand in the small of her back reminded her gently that she was obstructing the entrance . |
| 2 | Zora Neale Hurston was lucky enough to grow up in Eatonville , Florida , a black town run by blacks , so that she was spared the experience of racism in her formative years suffered by most black Americans . |
| 3 | The next moment he was inside and she was closing the door behind him , then leading him along the narrow hallway towards the living-room . |
| 4 | ‘ Said it was nothing to do with her professional integrity , just that she was pursuing the spying line a bit too vigorously . |
| 5 | She said goodbye to Maggie and then , just as she was leaving the kitchen , she looked directly at Phoebe and added , |
| 6 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 7 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 8 | James Halden returned just as she was finishing the last frill , and she jumped up as soon as she heard his steps on the stair . |
| 9 | But as soon as she was arrested the potential consequences really came home to her . |
| 10 | She was threatened with that a few days later when she was sweeping the back stairs and her rear view was too much of a temptation for the young footman . |
| 11 | Now that she was doing the crawl ( painfully ) she barged into people all the time . |
| 12 | No one can be in any doubt now that she was pulling the strings behind the royal side show that has preoccupied Britain for the past six months . |
| 13 | ‘ They comprise Ling 's housekeeping , ’ Silas informed her , his cool tone indicating he knew perfectly well that she was dodging the previous issue . |
| 14 | ‘ History is going to be my subject — modern history — Of course it 's a frightfully easy degree , but it happens to be what I 'm most interested in ’ ( even as she was uttering the words she was aghast ) , ‘ that , and literature naturally , and political journalism . ’ |
| 15 | About a hundred Greek Cypriot demonstrators booed and jeered the Queen today as she was handed the keys of Nicosia . |
| 16 | Particularly when she was dusting the shelves in the study . |