Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For once the little gate was locked , but she quickly pulled back the stone bolt and slipped outside , drawing the gate closed but not relocking it : she would need to be as little delayed as possible if she were to get back unnoticed , and the first servants rose early , at the ninth hour of night . |
| 2 | Naomi , she was arriving back penniless she had a foreign daughter-in-law , that in itself was proof enough that she had strayed from God 's will . |
| 3 | first of all she just ripped at it and slung it around , although after a couple of days she was tearing off dainty morsels and swallowing them . |
| 4 | After about a week she was tearing off big lumps of the dead chicks I was feeding her . |
| 5 | Yet here she was opening up old wounds and it was harder to forgive that . |
| 6 | It would be surprising if Tolkien had not looked at the calm face of Tollund Man , or the hideously frightened one of ‘ Queen Gunhild ’ ( all too obviously still struggling as she was pinned down alive ) , and reflected that these were the true lineaments of his pagan ancestors . |
| 7 | She was breathing in great gulps , but still there was n't enough air . |