Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had plunked her pack with the lighter on top of the bar , as if she were planning to smoke the lot before she moved on . |
| 2 | Her hands , already shaking , had become even less steady , causing the egg she was breaking to miss the hotplate and fall on to the red embers below . |
| 3 | She was struggling to reach the bell under her desk top . |
| 4 | She was struggling to cut the meat into what the book described as bite-size chunks when Edward appeared at the kitchen door . |
| 5 | As she wrung out a cloth which she was using to mop the floor Diana joked : ‘ Beryl , I doubt it . |
| 6 | She was built to keep the docks at Gloucester and Sharpness free from silt but could also work in the River Severn outside Sharpness Lock and on the west bank of the river at Lydney docks . |
| 7 | He leant right across the table now , to push Annie 's spoon back to her , and Carolyn put down the apple she was peeling to stroke the hollow in the back of his neck . |
| 8 | Her mission , she explained , was of the greatest delicacy and while she was loathe to broach the matter with the matriarch of the De Belvings , it was too serious to be discussed with anyone but the most trusted member of the household staff . |
| 9 | For some reason she was determined to drive the fact home , and Jenna felt rising anger to add to her other feelings . |
| 10 | She was determined to reach the body before anybody else . |
| 11 | She was determined to defend the discount to that mother , although that did not seem to fit the rest of her contributions in Committee . |
| 12 | But go to England she would for she was determined to make the directors of Croydon and Cooper see sense . |
| 13 | She was learning to recognize the effect she had on men , and to her surprise she saw the hint of desire creep into his gaze . |
| 14 | ‘ She was helping to entertain the princes ? ’ |
| 15 | I 'm sure she wrote everything from the ‘ What 's On in Stoke Newington ’ column to the reports of the Council 's planning committee meetings with equal sincerity , convinced she was helping to change the world . |
| 16 | If the prophecy worried her , she was managing to conceal the fact . |
| 17 | In October 1991 , she was asked to examine the three sisters and found them healthy in appearance and co-operative . |
| 18 | Having caught the left rough off the tee , she was shaping to hit the kind of second shot over trees and lakes which would have had Laura Davies drooling . |
| 19 | She was made to heave the hostel and the SSD found her a flat . |
| 20 | When her granddaughters came they were expected to scrub too : ‘ I 've seen my eldest sister , the minute she went in she was made to scrub the table — and it was white — scrub the floorboards — which were white . ’ |
| 21 | ( 68 ) Ianthe Ambrose could have gone overboard any time after 9.10 , when she was seen to leave the lecture , and on her own statement she had been no swimmer . |
| 22 | She was getting to know the way his mind worked . |
| 23 | ( 60 ) She was heard to shut the door a few minutes later . |
| 24 | She was beginning to tackle the problem in her quietly determined way , by suggesting a movie or a shopping trip to one or two of the quieter girls in the nurses ' home , and by spending more time chatting with her patients instead of being simply a sympathetic presence . |
| 25 | But subconsciously her mind was at work , and by the time she had garaged the car she was beginning to comprehend the appalling enormity of her mistake . |
| 26 | Isabel had to admit he was not messenger material , but she was beginning to question the wisdom of her panicked flight from the castle . |
| 27 | But it had n't , not completely , and now she was beginning to have the feeling that all of the best chances had been narrowly missed and the whole thing was now starting to come apart again . |
| 28 | She was beginning to experience the soloist 's panic of realizing that the success of the show rested on her shoulders . |
| 29 | She said she thought she was beginning to get the hang of it . |
| 30 | He looked even more puzzled but Pascoe could see from Alice 's face that she was beginning to get the picture . |