Example sentences of "she was [v-ing] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | I had absolutely no idea that she was intending to end everything between us . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But she was trying to wean herself off them and to give in now would be to acknowledge the potency of the nightmare . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | She covered it with her hand immediately as if she was trying to hide it from prying eyes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Maybe she was hoping to asphyxiate him with carbon monoxide fumes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought any time she was going to ask me to be bridesmaid . ’ |
| 12 | She was going to ask me for money , I thought . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She said she was going to take them to the men working on the road . ’ |
| 15 | True , she was going to leave herself with one very big headache with regard to her mortgage , but even that was not unsurmountable . |
| 16 | She sounded pleased to say it and Tug stared at her , with a wild hope that she was going to explain everything to him . |
| 17 | She had to get a move on if she was going to make it to the city before noon . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She was just a young kid fronting a band , determined she was going to make it to the top — like her idol . ’ |
| 20 | And now she was going to pile it on thick and heavy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | No-one could have known that she was going to bring them for the weekend . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When she saw them she was going to tell them about the tea and in the same breath demand to know what they had found and why Cobalt had anticipated finding anything in the Villa Fiesole . |
| 25 | apparently turned up this morning and they want a hundred pound by tomorrow , and they 're coming back tomorrow for it paying him ten pound a week and thought it was gone and he had er none so find a hundred pound by tomorrow and she did n't know where she was going to get it from , she just stood there and burst into tears and run off going on |
| 26 | She was deciding to devote herself to supporting him as he leapt from one peak to another . |