Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Also , she was now trapped here until he decided to come and fetch her , and she knew she would miss him daily .
2 She was still laughing softly as she laid the phone down , but the laughter died in her throat as she looked up to see Adam standing a few feet away , his eyes hard as jet .
3 She was still giving forth when he came in to investigate .
4 She was still standing there when he drove past in the rented car .
5 She was still sitting there when the silence began , those few moments of suspended time that came before the sounding of the air-raid sirens .
6 She would have been quite content simply to stare at the house for hours , and she was still sitting there when Alain opened her door and bent to look in at her .
7 For the moment notice that if the typical supplier infers that her price is higher than she was initially expecting solely because of a relative demand shift in her favour , then the typical expected average price level will remain at P and the rise in the aggregate demand curve will lead to a rise in output equal to y 1 - y n .
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