Example sentences of "[pron] she [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blaise Cendrars witnessed a fight in which she was getting the better of Modigliani . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's a good sign , ’ she told the clipboard on which she was entering the details of his pulse rate . |
| 3 | Our eyes were glued to the large plate into which she was placing the cooked ones . |
| 4 | One friend has explained how , in a conversation in which she was lamenting the cost of electricity , Eliot asked her in a confidential manner , " Are you on the domestic tariff ? " |
| 5 | And that was when her conscience , which because she 'd got something else to think about had stayed quiet , suddenly started to get to her about the way in which she was deceiving the man she loved . |
| 6 | In late 1916 Nina Boyle went to Macedonia and Serbia to do war-relief work , for which she was awarded the Samaritan medal and the Allied medal . |
| 7 | Barbara Coleman ignored him , she said to Maurin : ‘ Sabine admitted to me she was painting the pictures for Durance . |
| 8 | We told them she was losing the baby , but they thought it was just a scam for her to get out of the cell . |
| 9 | She advanced this theory to the child psychoanalyst to whom she was delivered the next day . |
| 10 | It was just like Hilda — and she could tell herself she was giving the Walter Machin industry a boost while she was enjoying a good laugh . |
| 11 | When they found her she was given the kiss of life . |