Example sentences of "she [was/were] [v-ing] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her own country , France , had been accustomed to regular taxation since the fourteenth century ; but if she was seeking to invoke this model , she might have remembered that there the nobles were exempt from taxation . |
| 2 | But by the summer she was beginning to spend more time in the open air , and one August evening she walked to the churchyard . |
| 3 | She was beginning to have second thoughts about bothering the Police with such a mass of suspicion based on such little tangible fact . |
| 4 | A nerve jiggled at the corner of Meredith 's mouth because she was beginning to piece small bits of information together and was coming up with a heap of worries . |
| 5 | She was trying to forge permanent links between France and Scotland because only then could the house of Valois survive against the monstrous growth of Hapsburg power , centred on Spain and the Empire , controlling the Netherlands and , in the very year she became regent , clutching England into its maw with the marriage of Philip and Mary . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Essex Euro MP Anne McIntosh said she was trying to get American Airlines to change its mind about withdrawing from Stansted . |
| 7 | She was trying to master celestial navigation and I stood beside her as she trapped Altair in the mirror , then delicately and successfully brought the star down to the horizon . |
| 8 | As she was kneeling to get some tools out of a cupboard he struck her on the head with a hammer , apparently on the impulse of the moment , and then stole a wallet which he found in the house . |
| 9 | McAllister really did think that she was going to faint this time , not through shock or disgust , but sheer physical exhaustion , except that the will which her family deplored kept her on her feet . |
| 10 | But there was no way she was going to open that door until she knew who was there . |
| 11 | Ashi Nadirpur laid out the clothes that she was going to wear that day on the bed . |
| 12 | She was going to pick some flowers for Jenny 's room . |
| 13 | That night , after spending the day engaged upon a frenzy of tidying and cleaning , she sat in her shining sitting room , watching television and wondering how on earth she was going to take two days of this , let alone two weeks . |
| 14 | She was going to need that support . |
| 15 | If she was going to stay for any length of time , she was going to need some furniture at least , she thought frowningly . |
| 16 | She says that if she went into schools and said she was going to talk abouty physics , kids would be bored . |
| 17 | she had our blue suite , such as it was , but she was going to come right flat on her back got his bedroom ready , for Ian all that , cos they do . |
| 18 | she was going to win either way . |
| 19 | But the longer she looked at herself the more she knew that she was going to buy this hat , or perhaps these two hats , and this beautiful , beautiful outfit . |
| 20 | And she was going to have wonderful costumes , specifically designed for her , featured in each story . |
| 21 | He left Grace and Peggy behind with the intention of travelling for a while in Europe , but he had only just landed in South Africa when Grace realized that she was going to have another child . |
| 22 | We thought she was going to have another heart attack . |
| 23 | ‘ Then one day she found that she was going to have another baby ; she was so wretched that she tried to keep it secret at first . |
| 24 | There was to be no quibbling , just , ‘ How much ? ’ for she had made up her mind that , no matter what it cost , she was going to have this outfit . |
| 25 | But now , with only a little while to go before she must join him in the sitting-room , she was starting to have second thoughts about the wisdom of accepting . |
| 26 | What see if I go , have I got something that Laura wanted cookery , I 've forgot what she wanted now , I forget what she said it were , she was making see that bit about you , about you |
| 27 | She denied that she was planning to marry 26-year-old barman Rob Camiletti . |
| 28 | she co told me she was coming to work one day , right , and you know the way she has to go past York Street Police Station ? |