Example sentences of "she [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ruth arrived at the Rope Walk on Monday morning , she felt as if she were stepping back in time . |
| 2 | She was looking directly at Coffin now , but was not seeing him . |
| 3 | To check his wandering thoughts he started to ask her to resume her labours elsewhere and finish the surgery when he had completed his own tasks in it — Only to find that she was hopping gently from foot to foot , and was bursting to ask him a question . |
| 4 | ‘ Miss Jarman ai n't going to like it if he chokes , ’ but she was thinking only of Midnight . |
| 5 | She was moving back on board Wavebreaker in preparation for the next day 's early departure . |
| 6 | She was weeping now in earnest . |
| 7 | It was Carmella and she was screaming vituperatively in Italian . |
| 8 | I do n't know , she said she was leaving here at quarter to five |
| 9 | She was swinging slowly from side to side , like a pendulum . |
| 10 | She was clinging desperately to normality and self-respect . |
| 11 | She was trembling now from head to foot . |
| 12 | She was running away from home . |
| 13 | You say you met my daughter on the train to Boston , that she was running away from home , that she ended up on your doorstep when her brother refused to house her ? ’ |
| 14 | She was running out of time and courage as it was , she admitted as she leaned into the wardrobe , searching for a pair of navy espadrilles . |
| 15 | If you remember , when you met Lexy she was going down with flu — her best friend would n't have recognised her voice . |
| 16 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 17 | She was going along with nature , was n't she ? |
| 18 | Suddenly she realized that she had forgotten she was relying totally on speed speechreading . |
| 19 | She was lying there without protest , her flesh quivering beneath the weight of the man who lay grunting and sweating between her legs . |
| 20 | She was suffering dreadfully from morning sickness , she was haunted by Camilla Parker-Bowles and she was desperately trying to accommodate herself to her new position and new family . |
| 21 | The appellant attacked a girl aged 13 as she was walking home in mid-morning ; he put his arms round her waist from behind , pushed her to the ground and shouted ‘ Let me have it . ’ |
| 22 | She was falling hopelessly in love with the man . |
| 23 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 24 | Eva often tells the story of a woman in one of the big hostels in Scotland that she was visiting just before Christmas one year . |
| 25 | ‘ Come on in , darling , ’ said the sharp little woman who was holding the door , screwing up her eyes shrewdly against the cigarette-smoke she was blowing out in order to speak . |
| 26 | When she had visualized standing just inside the cupboard , I asked her how she felt about it ; she replied that , so far , she was feeling quite at ease . |
| 27 | Then , just when she was feeling really at ease with him , he stepped back a pace , came in on the tail-end of her report on the new extra-calorie meal schedule they were working on , and undermined her equilibrium totally with the words , ‘ I like the way the dappled light is playing on your hair . |
| 28 | An hour later she was floating somewhere between reality and the fifth dimension . |
| 29 | She was doing well at college , all her work was up to date and she did n't seem at all under pressure . |
| 30 | Again she was questioning why in creation she was giving in to his edicts , but , when she received nothing new in the way of an answer , rebellion set in . |