Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried not to sound as though she were interrogating the older woman . |
| 2 | Blaise Cendrars witnessed a fight in which she was getting the better of Modigliani . |
| 3 | Several times , Bernice thought she was getting the better of him , only to realise that he was toying with her expectations and reactions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He added that she was staying a further night ‘ as a precaution ’ . |
| 6 | Now she was discovering a wider world . |
| 7 | In fact , she was offered a better deal ( let us not go into too many historic technicalities ) in Oxford , but she chose Cambridge because of Flora Piercy 's eye-shadow , and because of Dr Leavis . |
| 8 | ‘ And I was glad she was marrying an older man like Giles Hawick . ’ |
| 9 | But she was preparing a longer and more ambitious work , an imaginary autobiography called The Boyfriends . |