Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 2 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 3 | Once again he sounded as if he was accusing her of something . |
| 4 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 5 | as if he was treating her like a child … |
| 6 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |
| 7 | The examination under anaesthesia without consent is inexplicable ( unless it was to punish her for having refused examination when conscious ) . |
| 8 | ‘ That was only because you were tearing her to pieces . |
| 9 | My mum was really upset because he was accusing her of having an affair with another man . |
| 10 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 11 | ‘ I have n't worked it out in detail , ’ Melissa admitted , ‘ but I was thinking about it while you were putting her through your puff-and-blow routine … ’ |
| 12 | Leila did n't have the heart to tell him she doubted whether there 'd be much opportunity for him ever to do that , at least while he was helping her with Ari . |
| 13 | It was hard to think while he was watching her like that , and even harder to follow the sudden switch in the conversation . |
| 14 | In the taxi , while he was dropping her at her small house in Fulham , she made an effort to regain some inch of the indispensable contact she had squandered , but there seemed no way of doing it . |
| 15 | Mrs Brooks ' dog was almost run over recently as she was putting her into the car . |
| 16 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 17 | She felt safe only when he was treating her with his customary icy rage . |
| 18 | ‘ Sabine Jourdain was murdered and it looks as though it was to prevent her from talking . ’ |
| 19 | Such a touching story , Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall — ’ and he spoke her name as though he were striking her with it ‘ — and all a lie . |
| 20 | Johnny 's words had left her feeling inadequate , as though he were presenting her with some enormous challenge which she did not feel equal to meet . |