Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 2 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 3 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 4 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 5 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 6 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 7 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 8 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 9 | She was pursuing him like the Fury pursuing the crime . |
| 10 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 11 | She was watching them over the rim of the glass , looking from one to the other of their faces , trying to follow their too rapid talk . |
| 12 | She was watching him through the cigarette smoke to judge the effect she was producing . |
| 13 | When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile . |
| 14 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 15 | She was treating him like a little boy . |
| 16 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 17 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |
| 18 | Now , all that mattered was that she was following him up the stairs to an elegant Georgian town house . |
| 19 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 20 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 22 | She was carrying him as a baby along a valley devoid of vegetation and with high hills on each side . |
| 23 | His excitement meant nothing to her ; she felt she was covering him with a pall of ash . |
| 24 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 25 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 26 | Mrs Brooks ' dog was almost run over recently as she was putting her into the car . |
| 27 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 28 | Still peering from the corner of his eye , Frankie stared at her breasts for a long time before he realized with a jolt that she was observing him through the mirror . |