Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment she was too surprised to speak and simply stared as if she were looking down on an apparition . |
| 2 | She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them . |
| 3 | It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip . |
| 4 | I wonder if I were to kill her , if she were dead , if she were knocked over by a car , would that make the jealousy , that mixture of anxiety , grief and fear of exclusion , simply stop ? |
| 5 | She was sinking down into a dream , aware only of the warmth of his body wrapped intimately against her own . |
| 6 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 7 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 8 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 9 | Her gaze distant , as though she was looking back into the past , she continued , ‘ It would n't have been easy , staying here , but I dare say we would have managed . |
| 10 | She was looking out into the vault of air above the sea . |
| 11 | She was looking out of a window towards a view of the park . |
| 12 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 13 | She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything . |
| 14 | The trickiest parts was keeping the feet with their fearsome claws underneath the body while she was lashed up like a parcel . |
| 15 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 16 | She was pressed back against the seat as Fergus accelerated again . |
| 17 | She was speaking out after the deputy leader of Durham County Council , Bob Pendlebury , warned the dispute between the British Government and the European Community about the allocation of European grants could hit the county hard . |
| 18 | Before she left the Grand Hotel for the opening of the conference , she was chatted up by a ponderous Patrick Cormack , a chastened Colin Moynihan and an eager Charles Harvey . |
| 19 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 20 | Then she was bounding out of the room , heading for the front door and rushing outside into the garden . |
| 21 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 22 | She forced Moran to dance and by the night 's end she was worn out by the single effort . |
| 23 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 24 | Frances Maidment has vivid memories of the day she was run over by a stolen car . |
| 25 | She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death . |
| 26 | They sang something noble and uplifting about Spiderglass and the atmosphere of pride swelled Jezrael 's emotions until she was swallowed up by the crowd 's euphoria . |
| 27 | She was hanging around with a bunch of amateurs in Hell . |
| 28 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 29 | She was calling out into the mist and he listened and did not move . |
| 30 | She was waved on by a sharp-eyed young officer , who boasted he could smell a smuggler from fifty yards away . |