Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 7 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 8 | She was pursuing him like the Fury pursuing the crime . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She was watching him through the cigarette smoke to judge the effect she was producing . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |
| 15 | Now , all that mattered was that she was following him up the stairs to an elegant Georgian town house . |
| 16 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 17 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 20 | Mrs Brooks ' dog was almost run over recently as she was putting her into the car . |
| 21 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 22 | Still peering from the corner of his eye , Frankie stared at her breasts for a long time before he realized with a jolt that she was observing him through the mirror . |
| 23 | She was lowering herself from the tip-toe that she needed to look over the panelled backing of the window display when something else caught her eye , further down the road . |