Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 2 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 3 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 4 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 5 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 6 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 7 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 8 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 9 | She was pursuing him like the Fury pursuing the crime . |
| 10 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 11 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 12 | She was watching them over the rim of the glass , looking from one to the other of their faces , trying to follow their too rapid talk . |
| 13 | She was watching him through the cigarette smoke to judge the effect she was producing . |
| 14 | When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She was treating him like a little boy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The situation arising from this all-too-common attitude was as follows : in the evening she was placing herself in a situation of maximum temptation as far as diet-breaking was concerned with time on her hands and food and drink all too readily available . |
| 19 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |
| 20 | Now , all that mattered was that she was following him up the stairs to an elegant Georgian town house . |
| 21 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 22 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 23 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 24 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 25 | Mind you , she was starving herself to the point of endangering her life and had to be hospitalized , but er oh no , her hormon her hormon well her hormonal changes went into reverse , they absolutely did . |
| 26 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 27 | The lecherous Cohn once used his intercom to address an embarrassed starlet when he asked her if she was keeping herself in a state of sexual readiness for him . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | She probably imagined she was comporting herself in an attractively provocative and feminine fashion , thought Lydia , sneering and lengthening her stride . |
| 30 | A sob , swiftly repressed , rose in her throat ; she was condemning herself to a life as lonely as the seagull 's looked , but it , at least , could find a mate — she would never be able to do that . |