Example sentences of "that she [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She , too , felt that she was denied the opportunity to make a genuine contribution , in cooperation with the professionals , to the understanding of Tom 's needs and the circumstances in which they were being created . |
| 2 | I sensed from her wide , fearful eyes , that she was dreading the prospect of having to ring Moscow and wake Sonia up in the middle of the night , telling her Sergei was dead . |
| 3 | France was an ally of the US and it was as such that she was to receive the greater part of the half a billion dollars in military assistance for the Far East which had been appropriated by Congress . |
| 4 | Although there were six central government departments concerned in one way or another with inner cities , the Prime Minister made it plain that she was to spearhead the inner city campaign and in 1987 , to demonstrate the seriousness of the government 's intent , a cabinet committee on the inner cities was established with Mrs Thatcher as its chairperson . |
| 5 | Many are unware that she was topping the charts with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones way before the platform had made a come back . |
| 6 | Many are unware that she was topping the charts with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones way before the platform had made a come back . |
| 7 | I was sure that she was telling the truth . |
| 8 | If they were right , there could be no doubt that she was telling the truth . |
| 9 | But with Lindsey it was the smoking , the drinking staying out , out pretending she was babysitting erm ringing her daddy home and saying daddy can I babysit the night till half eleven and her daddy 's thinking that she was telling the truth |
| 10 | Bridget 's hand in the small of her back reminded her gently that she was obstructing the entrance . |
| 11 | At the time she gave me the impression that she was enjoying the joke . |
| 12 | With an uncharacteristic spurt of mischief she added that she was considering the matter . |
| 13 | Miss Pamela Lyall , who sat beside him and talked carelessly , represented the modern school of thought in that she was wearing the barest minimum of clothing on her sun-browned person . |
| 14 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 15 | Then in September , Sue announced that she was leaving the BBC after 20 years to join Granada Television which , she said , was fully prepared to give her the freedom necessary to put together the type of programme she truly wanted to make . |
| 16 | Dr Neil knew that she was speaking the truth about what had happened to her . |
| 17 | She heard the lady 's voice but she had no idea what she was saying until a sharpness in Miss Beard 's tone signified that she was repeating the same remark . |
| 18 | Sometimes , at the end of a busy day , she would tell herself that she was handling the situation well . |
| 19 | She explained that she was chairing the meeting in the absence of Elizabeth Varley , who is ill . |
| 20 | ‘ Said it was nothing to do with her professional integrity , just that she was pursuing the spying line a bit too vigorously . |
| 21 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |
| 22 | Zora Neale Hurston was lucky enough to grow up in Eatonville , Florida , a black town run by blacks , so that she was spared the experience of racism in her formative years suffered by most black Americans . |
| 23 | You are Friend — she studied the symbols of Friend 's identity with all that he meant to her of acceptance and caring , frightened that she was showing the nebulae of her longing for him too — but I can not read you perfectly . |
| 24 | She drove so frantically to begin with that it finally occurred to her that she was running the risk of being stopped for speeding . |
| 25 | She heard the sound of another car behind her , and saw that she was blocking the narrow road . |
| 26 | No one can be in any doubt now that she was pulling the strings behind the royal side show that has preoccupied Britain for the past six months . |
| 27 | On June 15 KKE secretary-general Aleka Papariga , who was from party 's conservative current , had announced that she was pulling the KKE out of the Left Alliance . |
| 28 | But there was no stopping Charlotte and Ruth realised , as the words poured out of her , that she was releasing the pent-up feelings of many months . |
| 29 | Lucy said , looking up at her , and right at that moment Josie would have sworn that some kind of a facade had dropped and that she was returning the gaze of a six year-old . |
| 30 | Now that she was doing the crawl ( painfully ) she barged into people all the time . |