Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the bus home that day , she wondered what her parents would have to say , if she were to ask them about it . |
| 2 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 3 | She was regarding them with wide , dark eyes , full of uncertainty . |
| 4 | Chrissie admits that these came from the store restaurant 's stocks , but claims that she was given them by Fred , the chef , in return for her helping out over her lunch break in the kitchen , which was short handed . |
| 5 | Chrissie admitted that these came from the store restaurant 's stocks , but claimed that she was given them by Fred — , the chef , in return for her helping out over her lunch break in the kitchen , which was short-handed . |
| 6 | She sought oblivion , and one tablet a night quickly escalated to two , then three , then a couple in the morning , then four , until eventually she was taking them like sweeties . |
| 7 | She felt as though she was seeing them from under a great weight . |
| 8 | She was watching them over the rim of the glass , looking from one to the other of their faces , trying to follow their too rapid talk . |
| 9 | IT would have to be demonstrated , for example , that she was placing them in moral or physical danger with her lifestyle . ’ |
| 10 | She was making them for him , then he 's making him some an'all . |
| 11 | She was doing them for him . ’ |