Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of parents were refusing to sign she said , ‘ because they admitted they just did not understand the new selection procedure . |
| 2 | The two officers who were scribbling eyed her curiously . |
| 3 | In a small adjoining room next door a group of women who act as counsellors and administrators were waiting to meet her . |
| 4 | The coffin muffled all sounds from outside , and she wondered if they were going to leave her here , or whether she was being taken elsewhere . |
| 5 | She was worried they were going to hit her . |
| 6 | I know beca that 's only cos we were going to call her Lisa Marie were n't we ? |
| 7 | Well you er you , I thought you were going to ask her to look at . |
| 8 | Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan . |
| 9 | So we made them a cup of tea and hopefully they were going to talk her into it . |
| 10 | Even if she did tell them the whereabouts of the Grimoire , there was no way they were going to spare her or Julie . |
| 11 | Perhaps this was better , to be free to see where they were going to take her , to follow them , to keep out of their hands and then perhaps an opportunity would come to do something . |
| 12 | Poor Anna had been very indiscreet , the fascisti were going to arrest her or put pressure on her to leave the country for good , but he had been assured that if the principessa were to live again with him quietly in Rome nobody would touch her . |
| 13 | And I was very worried because the lady that was going to be paying for the job was just down there and if we were n't careful we were going to kill her with the wardrobe . |
| 14 | But maybe your Ministerial colleague is n't going right for the very top , McLeish thought with unreasonable conviction , and you were going to stop her working at Yeo Davis when you could . |
| 15 | If he were going to humiliate her , he could not have picked a better opportunity . |
| 16 | If I 'd known , ’ said Cadfael dubiously , ‘ that you were going to bring her back safely , and no great harm done , I might not have been so busy about worrying out how she ever went astray . ’ |
| 17 | We were going to tell her on her birthday , that 's two weeks from today . ’ |
| 18 | As soon as she was old enough , they were going to send her to stay with relatives in the city so that she could get a better education . |
| 19 | And erm they were going to send her for an interview straight away . |
| 20 | She heard the front gate squeak open , and as she saw the two young Garda officers look up at the window and come slowly up her path , Kit Hegarty suddenly knew without any doubt what they were coming to tell her . |
| 21 | Flavia had a sense that they were trying to flatter her , butter her up ; she did n't like it , she did n't like the Fourniers enough . |
| 22 | Either she was a Madonna and people did n't give her credit for being one , or else she was trying to be one and people were trying to stop her or possibly she was being forced to be one against her better judgement . |
| 23 | For , after all , he had done nothing to bring on such an astonishing reaction , for behaving as though he were trying to rape her … |
| 24 | Mister Johnny sat quiet and still as he always did when she talked , watching her mouth and moving his own as if he were trying to copy her . |
| 25 | Olwyn was told exactly what was going on : the behaviour her parents were trying to stop and what they were trying to get her to do instead . |
| 26 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 27 | The stars winked over her , as if they were trying to tell her something . |
| 28 | The footsteps behind her seemed to be hurrying , almost as if they were trying to catch her up . |
| 29 | This man she 's married finally came to his senses , but he was refusing to marry her at one point . |
| 30 | He saw that a tall young man , dressed in the uniform of a lower-class masher — check trousers , brown bowler , shiny brown boots , and huge moustache — had a girl pinned against the wall of one of the office buildings , and was attempting to kiss her — or worse . |