Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ca n't remember any but there again you were she were n't looking for green . |
| 2 | It was not a problem that had ever occurred before , and although Ellie knew she was probably playing with fire she was intrigued to know how it would all turn out . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think so , she was just passing on gossip . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah she had it , she was just going into theatre at the end of the programme , she was having it done for the fourth time |
| 5 | No she was just asking about christmas presents . |
| 6 | When she was n't inveighing against cruelty to ponies and disgusting language at Rutshire Polo Club , and furiously ringing up Ricky to complain about Perdita thundering ponies five abreast down Eldercombe High Street , she was writing to Dancer , to grumble about cheeky builders , truculent security guards , and Alsatians chasing her cat , Smudge . |
| 7 | It was n't like him , it was out of character , but she was n't acting to character either . |
| 8 | She had never done anything like this before , but she was n't lacking in courage . |
| 9 | She was practically trembling with outrage . |
| 10 | She was practically gibbering with outrage . |
| 11 | She was positively trembling with rage , and she could feel her nails piercing into the flesh of her arm . |
| 12 | She was already sweating with exertion . |
| 13 | She was not writing of slum life so as to shock the reader , or even indulging in nostalgia so as to entertain . |
| 14 | She was not going to back down on this one , you could tell . |
| 15 | At least then he would know that she was not lying on ice in a bloody mortuary . |
| 16 | The girl 's defence solicitor said she was now living at home after months in a children 's home during family difficulties . |
| 17 | She was still shivering with indignation , but when she looked up at her grandmother , it was to see her shivering too , but with suppressed laughter . |
| 18 | Despite admitting she was still suffering from jet lag she was forced to spend lunchtime with Prince Charles at the official home of Prime Minister Hyun Soong-Jong and his wife . |
| 19 | Maybe she was still suffering from jet lag or , possibly , from the deeply upsetting and traumatic visit to the hospital this morning . |
| 20 | She was still tingling with pleasure and her cheeks burned when she realised that if he came back he could just take up where he had left off and she would not do a thing to stop him . |
| 21 | The word shot from her swollen lips ; she was still reeling with shock . |
| 22 | He had been fiercely possessive , racked by an agony of passionate wanting and yet somehow retaining sufficient control to assert his mastery , denying her fulfilment , waiting until she was almost weeping with desire , as if he needed to hear her husky throbbing pleas confirming his dominion in the relationship . |
| 23 | For one brief moment it felt as though she was almost drowning in ecstasy , and then she felt Ross removing his lips , cursing violently under his breath as he withdrew his arms from about her body . |
| 24 | She was almost crying with rage . |
| 25 | She was almost choking with despair , seeing that none of this was making a whisker of difference . |
| 26 | But she was almost choking with emotion . |