Example sentences of "[vb past] she was [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then he had tried to stay away from her , and it seemed she was doing the same , which did nothing to cool his interest . |
| 2 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
| 3 | She fell silent for a moment and I saw she was watching the long heaving waves slip past our flanks . |
| 4 | Several times , Bernice thought she was getting the better of him , only to realise that he was toying with her expectations and reactions . |
| 5 | For a moment I thought she was going the same way as her father . |