Example sentences of "she was [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was regarding them with wide , dark eyes , full of uncertainty . |
| 2 | She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train . |
| 3 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
| 4 | I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good . |
| 5 | She trusted him , for her own part , without reserve or doubt ; but she was trusting him for those who crossed the river and took the risks . |
| 6 | Unlike the others , she did n't rush to say how pleased she was to see him after all this time ; she did n't make polite small talk about Lucasta Redburn 's death . |
| 7 | She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her . |
| 8 | Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur . |
| 9 | I wondered what Connie Fraser thought about living in a place like that , and whether she was watching me from one of the dozens of balcony windows that faced the front . |
| 10 | Once she had managed to enter that cupboard successfully without any fear or panic , she was to telephone me for another appointment . |
| 11 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 12 | When Gem was up here the other day she was telling us about one of them teachers who plays computer games instead of giving lessons |
| 13 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 14 | IT would have to be demonstrated , for example , that she was placing them in moral or physical danger with her lifestyle . ’ |
| 15 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
| 16 | I 've put in stuff for her from all over , and she always thanks me , not like she was paying me at all . |
| 17 | McLeish carried over a loaded tray , and ate ravenously , noting with interest that Catherine Crane had an equally good appetite , though it was not obvious where she was putting it on that slim frame . |
| 18 | How could she feel so physically drawn to him , when intellectually she was detesting him for this arrogant charade ? |