Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared down at her plate , wishing she knew what to answer , wishing she were somewhere else but they never let her out of their sight . |
| 2 | She was just there because she had n't er had n't passed away . |
| 3 | She was nearly home and someone jumped out at her and battered her with a piece of wood . |
| 4 | She was only here because he 'd manoeuvred it ; now he seemed determined to keep her at arm 's length . |
| 5 | She was there again when I helped in a feeding centre in Seoul in Korea , when the people came from broken down shacks once a day to get soup and rice . |
| 6 | He knew she was there long before he saw her . |
| 7 | Anyway , Thursday she was still there and my nephew came up rather unexpectedly to bring some photographs back and he said ‘ Where 's Nell ? ’ . |
| 8 | She could n't reach Kelpie from the nearest branch to him , but when she was as near as she could get she put out her hand and called softly to him , just as she used to do at home . |
| 9 | Although he was horribly conscious of his filthy boots , he sought out the supervisor of the office cleaning company by which Mrs. Millings was employed , and explained that she was late only because she had been helping the police to investigate a river tragedy " like a good citizen " . |
| 10 | Someone asked if she was all right and she found this such a strange question . |
| 11 | After a while I asked her whether she was all right and she said yes . |
| 12 | He asked her if she was all right and she said , ‘ I 'm fine , ’ but it was with a weak smile and her eyes barely focusing on him . |
| 13 | But she was always there when he came back from real or imagined expeditions , not like his father who 'd walked out after a drunken row one night . |
| 14 | I did phone , several times , she was never there and I left messages . |