Example sentences of "[adv] she [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps there was an explanation for what she 'd heard , perhaps she was imagining the worst . |
| 2 | Perhaps she was playing the part of a small-town librarian but hoping not to be taken too seriously . |
| 3 | So she was seeing the Colombians as the enemy . |
| 4 | So she was pressing the wrong keys ; did it have to make such a racket ? |
| 5 | Tonight she was to chair the meeting , so she left the front door unlocked for any late-comers , and , having seated the nervous little reporter from the Advent in a position where she could see and hear all the ladies present , giving her at the same time a hastily written list of the names of those expected to attend , she called the meeting to order . |
| 6 | She did not want to lose Paula , who was one of her best models , but already she was enjoying the reflected glory that came from having personally trained a house model for one of the great London couture houses . |
| 7 | Always she was wanting the window open . |
| 8 | Yes yesterday she was straining the boiling water off the potatoes . |
| 9 | She was very determined , and very soon after her return home she was managing the stairs , and later she was able to use the bath without a hoist . |
| 10 | Later she was to launch the mini-dress on the world . |
| 11 | The thought caused her to hasten forward again , and moments later she was opening the food hampers . |
| 12 | Wisely she was given the Popplewell season . |
| 13 | Unwittingly she was operating the intermittent reinforcement principle in support of a bad habit ! |
| 14 | And now she was holding the dress . |
| 15 | Now she was inserting the throat and ear plugs with which she would hear and communicate and breathe . |
| 16 | She managed to give the would-be lawn a rough cut with an ancient mower she found in the outside store , and now she was tackling the border where already green shoots pierced the earth with promise . |
| 17 | Now she was finding the affluent West had its own poor and destitute : " There are so many sad and lost people — psychiatric , emotional , problems of insecurity and alienation . " |
| 18 | At the time this had seemed appropriate , but now she was regretting the formal atmosphere . |
| 19 | As always she had won her way , and now she was paying the price of it . |
| 20 | Here she was recognising the client 's right to choose what help was acceptable , and she had also made a careful assessment of the situation at that time . |
| 21 | Then she was twisting the handle and discovering Oliver was not home . |
| 22 | At least she was spared the ignominy of the board in Washington Heights , in upper Manhattan , where a teacher was arrested in his schoolyard — carrying cocaine , marijuana , valium and a switch-blade . |
| 23 | Then again she was grabbing the plait , screeching now , ‘ I 'll cut it off . |