Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] she [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | She said goodbye to Maggie and then , just as she was leaving the kitchen , she looked directly at Phoebe and added , |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | But as soon as she was arrested the potential consequences really came home to her . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
8 | About a hundred Greek Cypriot demonstrators booed and jeered the Queen today as she was handed the keys of Nicosia . |
9 | Particularly when she was dusting the shelves in the study . |