Example sentences of "she was [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman was more concerned with gathering evidence for her divorce than with the truth , and she was determined to browbeat everyone into believing her . |
| 2 | They 'd fallen asleep , a head on each shoulder and she was determined to leave them like that for as long as she could . |
| 3 | So here Belinda was , with that naked feeling she always got when she looked at her wet hair and towel-draped neck under the bright lights of a salon , and she very much hoped that Faye was right about the end result looking ‘ fabulous ’ , because she was determined to show everyone at drinks this evening that she was just as soignée , just as at ease in a smart social gathering as they were . |
| 4 | This time she was determined to get it in black and white . |
| 5 | He was — interesting , and looked as though he knew his way around the world both backwards and forwards , including the inside of a lady 's bedroom — not that she was intending to let him inside her bedroom , but it might be fun to indulge in a little flirtation , might n't it ? |
| 6 | I had absolutely no idea that she was intending to end everything between us . ’ |
| 7 | She had known William as a boy and as an adolescent ; she was beginning to know him as an adult and as a lover ; but between the two blocks of knowledge was a ten-year gap . |
| 8 | She was trying to open it with one hand , while the other held the bearskin to her breasts , when Guy reached down and retrieved her shift . |
| 9 | But she was trying to wean herself off them and to give in now would be to acknowledge the potency of the nightmare . |
| 10 | She looked right at O and Boy when she said this and it was as if she was trying to scare them in particular , even as if she was trying to frighten them away from each other , as if she was saying , to them , and to all of us , this is what you have to go through , right ? |
| 11 | She covered it with her hand immediately as if she was trying to hide it from prying eyes . |
| 12 | He knew that she was trying to help him save his marriage , and in a tiny part of himself he knew that she was right . |
| 13 | Maybe she was hoping to asphyxiate him with carbon monoxide fumes . |
| 14 | When he murmured and clung to her all the more , she was tempted to put him in his night-shift and take him straight to bed , but Sunday night was bath night , and he would sleep all the better for it , she thought . |
| 15 | Glancing at him , she was tempted to tease him about the sugar he had borrowed earlier , but if she did that it would amount to a tacit admission that he was right about her behaviour . |
| 16 | She saw Penry 's eyes on the silver brooch on her shoulder , knew he was remembering their time together on the island , and for a moment she was tempted to throw herself into his arms , to assure him that nothing mattered as long as he loved her , Leonora Fox , not Melanie . |
| 17 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought any time she was going to ask me to be bridesmaid . ’ |
| 19 | She was going to ask me for money , I thought . |
| 20 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 21 | She said she was going to take them to the men working on the road . ’ |
| 22 | True , she was going to leave herself with one very big headache with regard to her mortgage , but even that was not unsurmountable . |
| 23 | She sounded pleased to say it and Tug stared at her , with a wild hope that she was going to explain everything to him . |
| 24 | She had to get a move on if she was going to make it to the city before noon . |
| 25 | When an hour later she did surface , she knew at once that there was no way she was going to make it to the office on time . |
| 26 | She was just a young kid fronting a band , determined she was going to make it to the top — like her idol . ’ |
| 27 | And now she was going to pile it on thick and heavy . |
| 28 | A sudden wave of panic swept over her and she glanced at the others but it did n't seem as if she was going to learn anything for the moment . |
| 29 | No-one could have known that she was going to bring them for the weekend . ’ |
| 30 | An odd posture , bent over — it was the girl of this afternoon , and she was going to throw something at the windows of the sitting-room . |