Example sentences of "[subord] she [was/were] [v-ing] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Janet Roscoe half opened her mouth as if she were contemplating breaking the ensuing silence . |
| 2 | She had plunked her pack with the lighter on top of the bar , as if she were planning to smoke the lot before she moved on . |
| 3 | If she was going to do the job at all , professional pride demanded she do it properly and , for hair as thick and luxuriant as his , ‘ just chopping a bit off ’ would n't do at all . |
| 4 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |
| 5 | She was damned if she was going to make the first conciliatory move ; it would blunt the point of all she had done in Waterford . |
| 6 | But she had no time for resurrecting memories , not if she was going to fulfil the promise Friend had built in her . |
| 7 | This made her late with the lunch , and at the table she found the young men impossible to talk to because she was trying to retain the lines of what she had prepared to say . |
| 8 | Ruth drank thirstily because it was her first priority and because she was going to enjoy the next delicious moment and wanted to savour the expectancy of it . |
| 9 | But her earlier beating caused her to move slowly and as she was attempting to open the window in order to jump out , her father strode into the room . |
| 10 | At last just as she was contemplating getting the next bus home he arrived . |
| 11 | She did n't really notice him , for she was trying to avoid the approach of a loiterer . |