Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again Lee felt as if she were watching something new . |
| 2 | These factors continued to make it more difficult for him to provide the separateness and space that Liddie needed if she were to develop her limited confidence in herself as a mother . |
| 3 | And she were doing it full-time and then she went she had children and then she went part-time . |
| 4 | It was as if she were giving me some hyacinth bulbs and saying December was a bit late to plant them . |
| 5 | Now she was using her pathetic pleading little voice , the one that still could affect him even though he knew she was performing , using all the tricks she used to keep her place as the most important member of her bloody drama group . |
| 6 | Lydia did n't like going out unless she was looking her best . |
| 7 | A critical glance in the mirror as she thrust her feet into high-heeled black shoes revealed that she was looking her best . |
| 8 | That she was looking her best , or that Ven appreciated her appearance was made thrillingly clear a minute later , when she entered the sitting-room . |
| 9 | She might , if he waited , confide in him , but not now ; there was no time , if she was to retain her immaculate position in this household . |
| 10 | It did n't help that , intellectually , I knew that she was reliving her own feelings about the way in which a second child — me — had wrecked her marriage . |
| 11 | The gang of four pounced on the young mum as she was pushing her five-month-old daughter along Windsor Street , Toxteth . |
| 12 | As soon as she saw them she started firing , realized she was shouting something meaningless , and then at last understood what she was seeing . |
| 13 | The Law Lords found that she should have been fully informed by the bank that she was risking her whole house by guaranteeing a loan to her husband 's business , not the limited amount she believed at the time . |
| 14 | While she was thinking what that might be David Rosen bent from the height of his two steps and kissed her cheek . |
| 15 | Almost at once she was aiming her brightest smile at the nearest Ardakkean , who proved himself to be a male by grinning back at her and swelling his chest manfully . |
| 16 | She was learning something new every day , and David was enjoying being the teacher just as much as Jenny loved being the pupil . |
| 17 | The basement was full of the sharp warmth of frying onions , which meant she was cooking something complicated . |
| 18 | Mary was spectacular to look at and her own knowledge that she was made her capricious and difficult , expecting the best of everything . |
| 19 | She was confusing her poor machine with half a row of the new pattern , when it still had some of the last row in its little cogs . |
| 20 | She was wearing her best coat , dark red , and a dark red hat to match . |
| 21 | Her legs were crossed at the knee , and she was wearing her new wedge-heeled shoes . |
| 22 | The walk looked like being one of Fen 's brisk route marches , and Robbie thanked heaven she was wearing her new shoes . |
| 23 | She looked very young , as if she was wearing her first evening dress ; and in this photo she looked less heavy-featured ; rather piquant , a touch of mischief , almost a shy delectation in being queen of a cabinet of curiosa . |
| 24 | She was wearing her short fluttery pink skirt with the flowers on and her denim jacket and a pair of pink hightops . |
| 25 | She was wearing her favourite Dior , a narrow dress of violette de Parme silk crêpe , and a de Chavigny collar of amethysts and diamonds . |
| 26 | She was wearing her scarlet silk . |
| 27 | She was wearing something lime-green and minuscule , with silver sandals adorning bare legs that looked like the stems of a slender plant . |
| 28 | She was wearing something pink and pretty that covered her body in soft folds . |
| 29 | She was wearing something pink and delicate that floated around her body when she moved . |
| 30 | Tessa was n't even dressed — she was wearing his old tweed overcoat over her pyjamas . |