Example sentences of "she was [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must just have got off , and she was probably watching me from somewhere high above the distant sea . |
| 2 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 3 | but that she was also winning something of a reputation as a tough cookie , a determined career girl refusing to be deflected from her dreams . |
| 4 | Even Peter Thorneycroft , the veteran proto-monetarist of 1958 whom she had made Party Chairman , proved to be a ‘ one-nation ’ man at heart , and she was eventually to sack him in favour of a little-tried new favourite , Cecil Parkinson , the Paymaster-General . |
| 5 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 6 | She was now taking it to Peking . |
| 7 | As you yourself so candidly pointed out , she was only marrying me for my money — and , of course , to get out of a fix . ’ |
| 8 | She was only saying it as a balance . |
| 9 | From an early age , Sara had sensed that she irritated him , by her presence , by the fact that she was there to remind him of his wife 's earlier marriage . |
| 10 | She was suddenly seeing herself as a desirable young woman — a woman the famous Maître of the Maison de Verveine might have wanted to marry had he been free . |
| 11 | A ‘ rather terrible ’ third old lady displayed such a regularly outrageous temper that she was constantly locking herself in her room , expecting her meals to be left outside the door for her . |
| 12 | She was definitely distancing herself from the older woman . |
| 13 | She was always demanding something to the extent that she completely upset the ward routine and had the nursing staff , much as they tried to sympathize with her , at the end of their tethers . |
| 14 | The people in the famous circus , for example , that she was always telling them about . |
| 15 | Leith had almost finished her second course when , quite happy to let Travis talk away , she suddenly wondered , as he began to get repetitive , if she was indeed helping him by letting him talk so much on the same theme . |