Example sentences of "[coord] she was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 2 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 3 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 4 | We were sitting there and she was telling me about Brian . |
| 5 | It was a song Mr Malik sang , and she was singing it to what must , surely , be his words . |
| 6 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
| 7 | ‘ The first time I met Samantha , ’ Bob says , ‘ I 'll never forget this , she was surrounded by these six guys and she was funking herself with a vibrator . |
| 8 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 9 | She trusted him , for her own part , without reserve or doubt ; but she was trusting him for those who crossed the river and took the risks . |
| 10 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 11 | But she was doing it for their child , and in order to make sure that Angel was happy she needed the Reverend Morey . |
| 12 | The young Canadian took it upon himself in too domineering a fashion to explain about their religion , but she was having none of it . |
| 13 | But she was having none of it . |