Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was built to carry dry cargo such as fruit and groceries in crates , aluminium or copper . |
| 2 | Her own country , France , had been accustomed to regular taxation since the fourteenth century ; but if she was seeking to invoke this model , she might have remembered that there the nobles were exempt from taxation . |
| 3 | A vision of the other woman 's mocking green eyes very nearly sent her running back to the safety of her own room , but having come this far she was determined to see this thing through , come what may . |
| 4 | While waiting for a flight she was asked to do some translating at one of the jungle lodges . |
| 5 | She was asked to step next door where she was cursorily examined by a female Indian doctor who offered no opinion . |
| 6 | ‘ She was seen walking this way , ’ he said . |
| 7 | But by the summer she was beginning to spend more time in the open air , and one August evening she walked to the churchyard . |
| 8 | She was beginning to have second thoughts about bothering the Police with such a mass of suspicion based on such little tangible fact . |
| 9 | A nerve jiggled at the corner of Meredith 's mouth because she was beginning to piece small bits of information together and was coming up with a heap of worries . |
| 10 | She was trying to forge permanent links between France and Scotland because only then could the house of Valois survive against the monstrous growth of Hapsburg power , centred on Spain and the Empire , controlling the Netherlands and , in the very year she became regent , clutching England into its maw with the marriage of Philip and Mary . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Essex Euro MP Anne McIntosh said she was trying to get American Airlines to change its mind about withdrawing from Stansted . |
| 12 | She was trying to master celestial navigation and I stood beside her as she trapped Altair in the mirror , then delicately and successfully brought the star down to the horizon . |
| 13 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
| 14 | She was tempted to ignore any suggestion that he made , but the orange flames that flickered in the grate looked invitingly warm , and it was more than she could do to stay away . |
| 15 | As she was kneeling to get some tools out of a cupboard he struck her on the head with a hammer , apparently on the impulse of the moment , and then stole a wallet which he found in the house . |
| 16 | Turkish efforts to reverse the verdict between 1787 and 1791 were unavailing and by the Treaty of Jassy she was compelled to acknowledge Russian rule across the northern coast of the Black Sea . |
| 17 | McAllister really did think that she was going to faint this time , not through shock or disgust , but sheer physical exhaustion , except that the will which her family deplored kept her on her feet . |
| 18 | But there was no way she was going to open that door until she knew who was there . |
| 19 | Ashi Nadirpur laid out the clothes that she was going to wear that day on the bed . |
| 20 | She was going to pick some flowers for Jenny 's room . |
| 21 | That night , after spending the day engaged upon a frenzy of tidying and cleaning , she sat in her shining sitting room , watching television and wondering how on earth she was going to take two days of this , let alone two weeks . |
| 22 | She was going to need that support . |
| 23 | If she was going to stay for any length of time , she was going to need some furniture at least , she thought frowningly . |
| 24 | She says that if she went into schools and said she was going to talk abouty physics , kids would be bored . |
| 25 | she had our blue suite , such as it was , but she was going to come right flat on her back got his bedroom ready , for Ian all that , cos they do . |
| 26 | she was going to win either way . |
| 27 | But the longer she looked at herself the more she knew that she was going to buy this hat , or perhaps these two hats , and this beautiful , beautiful outfit . |
| 28 | And she was going to have wonderful costumes , specifically designed for her , featured in each story . |
| 29 | He left Grace and Peggy behind with the intention of travelling for a while in Europe , but he had only just landed in South Africa when Grace realized that she was going to have another child . |
| 30 | We thought she was going to have another heart attack . |