Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many times , in the middle of the night when she could not sleep , she was faced with the slightly guilty realization that she was behaving rather badly , but in the daytime it did n't seem to matter . |
| 2 | That night she was woken by the most terrible screams that she had ever heard . |
| 3 | ‘ She was fighting from the very first minute and she is still fighting . ’ |
| 4 | She was keeping to the more furtive by-ways of the city and away from loyal troops . |
| 5 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 6 | When , a little later on , as she was sitting beside the now sleeping child , she heard Liza come into the house , Harriet did not go downstairs but waited until her daughter stood in the doorway of the bedroom , wild-eyed and trembling . |