Example sentences of "[coord] she [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely |
| 2 | And she were doing it full-time and then she went she had children and then she went part-time . |
| 3 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 4 | And she was drowning she had to break her leg ! |
| 5 | Many of her friends were in politics or belonged to political families , it was the era of the Liberal reforms and that was what fired her most : she went to dinner-parties where she sat next to men who were going to make a speech that night and there were weeks when she went to the House every day , it was what she had always wanted , it was history , it was important , immensely important and she was seeing it , seeing it happen and that was important to her . |
| 6 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 7 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 8 | I was talking to a screw one day and she was telling me that when she 'd wanted to get work in prison she thought she 'd be there to help prisoners . |
| 9 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 10 | We were sitting there and she was telling me about Brian . |
| 11 | you know , this woman that I , goes down the school that talks , who I talked to , she knew from Peterborough and I think she 's German , she 's got an accent , I 'm sure for certain she 's German , anyway she 's got twins in Robert 's class and she was talking to me today and she was telling me her husband moved out to move from Peterborough with his job so I said what does he do ? and she said he 's a scientist , so I said oh is he ? , |
| 12 | And she came in and she was telling us all about it , and another woman who was there , she was the one who , she went over and sat beside here and said , Oh never mind and , You know we we we 'll get it sorted out , and , You 're better off without him . |
| 13 | Well , for instance , that she lived in a in an old vicarage , cos her husband had been a a , no a tri , priest in the Church of England and er we her house was haunted and she was telling us stories and sh she quite often saw the ghost , she was never worried , she never cos it never frightened her it was n't vicious or anything like that and she often saw it quite matter of fact . |
| 14 | He was pleased to see her so gentle for once , and she was singing him to sleep . |
| 15 | It was a song Mr Malik sang , and she was singing it to what must , surely , be his words . |
| 16 | They were losing and she knew they were going to lose and their last bloke was coming in and she was cheering them on . |
| 17 | The knitting was in her lap and she was regarding me steadily over the spectacles . |
| 18 | Doctor Milford must have told her sister the truth and she was taking it very hard . |
| 19 | Charles was to play tennis with Ann and she was to let him know when she was feeling upset . |
| 20 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
| 21 | And then we sat at the far side of the Old Gate bridge and er an old lady came along and said , and she was counting them but she said , just look at that thing , she counted seven although , in actual fact , by then th these dra the seven drakes had stopped cha chasing the duck and they were all sitting down . |
| 22 | So the day had come , and she was accepting it very calmly . |
| 23 | It was the same when her Mum got when it happened to her they got her a load of new clothes and she was trying them on and grandad said hey get in here now . |
| 24 | And now she could not stop talking , and he had put the book down , and they were shaking in each other 's arms , and he was kissing her , and she was kissing him , and really this would not do — they were in the embassy library , and anyone might come in , and , ‘ Dr Neil , we can not make love here ; it would not be proper , ’ she said breathlessly . |
| 25 | The next minute he was kissing her and she was kissing him back , her fingers in his hair , her breath sobbing in her throat . |
| 26 | Her hands slid up around his neck and she was kissing him back , her tongue meeting his with an intensity that was shocking . |
| 27 | But she was cooking and she was going you take , she goes , she goes , some people like it a little bit on the side , you know , with their food , some people on the side . |
| 28 | He was sitting next to Charity , however , and she was giving him her sole attention . |
| 29 | It sounds as though Maurin was paying him to keep Barbara there and she was paying him to run errands — deliver the note to you and the photograph to Nice Matin — and to turn a blind eye when she went out . ’ |
| 30 | It was Kate 's first real outing with a celebrity , and she was finding it fun , particularly as he was gratifyingly attentive to her , even if it was out of self-interest . |