Example sentences of "[noun] she [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Allan told the court Say had spent a normal and happy weekend with his wife before the incident and had been given no indication she was leaving him . |
| 2 | In fact , she won the history prize so many times that last term she was given it to keep , having only missed out in the second-year . |
| 3 | one of the lasses at work , work she was saying she , she went and she did n't have enough money , it were twenty two fifty |
| 4 | Behind her visor she was checking us , reading my insignia . |
| 5 | Towards the end of the thirteen-year marriage she was treating me as if I was someone the cat had brought home . |
| 6 | ‘ She is a police officer and naturally in the light of her vocation she was determined he was not going to get away with it . |
| 7 | I did n't want to know what I was capable of , given the opportunity she was offering me . |
| 8 | In another moment she was kissing him . |
| 9 | The moment she was seated he let her go , but she could still feel the imprint of his grip like iron wrapped in velvet . |
| 10 | With this power and position , there existed a proper distance for her to keep , and on that evening she was to bridge it fatally ; worse , there was a strident note of comedy debasing further the shaming accident … |
| 11 | In spite of her bone-weariness , all of a sudden she was facing him squarely , for she was the same height and if anything , more strongly built . |
| 12 | ‘ To warn her not to tell INCUBUS she was leaving them ? ’ |
| 13 | One minute she was enjoying it — oh , with a few protests thrown in , like she did n't know me well enough , she should n't be doing it , and so on — nothing serious . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , ’ she answered softly , but all the while she was watching him , seeing how his eyes cast a line to the climbing bird . |
| 15 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 16 | When Gem was up here the other day she was telling us about one of them teachers who plays computer games instead of giving lessons |
| 17 | His mother was in , seated at her kitchen desk and gloomily going over the month 's bills — her Persian lamb coat made the Hudson 's Bay bill look enormous , and , at the rate she was paying it off , it would take until next Easter to clear it . |
| 18 | In so many little ways she was shutting him out , building a complete life of her own . |
| 19 | Because of the enormous disruptions she had suffered in her life she was finding it difficult to manage on a day-to-day basis , and prison represented a way of ‘ escaping ’ from her immediate problems . |
| 20 | I suppose she meant if she put me on the Pill she was letting me sleep around . |
| 21 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 22 | They were n't hurt or threatened verbally — in fact , apart from the message she was given they were n't spoken to at all . |
| 23 | In March last year she was told she had lung and liver cancer , and without treatment would die within 6 months . |
| 24 | With the way she was shaking he probably thought she was about to fall to pieces at any moment . |
| 25 | There was something about the way she was treating them that still seemed odd to Masklin . |
| 26 | And the way she was talking it looked like they were gon they were going to put some more and invest some time , money |
| 27 | When she later challenged the EP she was told she should have contacted the Education Welfare Officer ( EWO ) designated by the LEA as being the ‘ named person ’ . |
| 28 | Although it was her first furlough she was using it to study for her Master 's Degree at Sidney University . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | oh she was shouting at him at dinner time Steven oh god dinner time she was shouting him |