Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | She was watching him through the cigarette smoke to judge the effect she was producing . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |
14 | Now , all that mattered was that she was following him up the stairs to an elegant Georgian town house . |
15 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
16 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
17 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
18 | Mrs Brooks ' dog was almost run over recently as she was putting her into the car . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |