Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilda must have known all about it , so it just depends on whether she thought she could reform him , or whether she were content to take him as he was . ’ |
| 2 | Wishing desperately that she were able to defend her grandfather , but knowing that to explain would only cause more trouble until she 'd been able to speak with his mother , and fervently wishing she had locked her door when she 'd come up to bed , Ellie said tiredly , ‘ I do n't know why . |
| 3 | A white plastic bag containing two loaves of bread was huddled against one of the last dock posts and she was relieved to see it , something belonging to today , to the living . |
| 4 | And when she was back in her bedroom , she was relieved to find there was a bolt on the door . |
| 5 | She was relieved to find she could get in . |
| 6 | She was unwilling to ally herself entirely with the three truly black girls in her class , who were scholarship students from poor families . |
| 7 | He had a sense that she was unwilling to meet his eyes . |
| 8 | What decided her in the end was that the new job specification covered much of the work she had already been doing at Stoy 's for C&R and she was loth to let it go . |
| 9 | She was content to let him believe it . |
| 10 | She was content to let it wash over her , occasionally noticing , like someone with a different first language , the way they laughed at things she did n't see the humour of , were made angry by perfectly innocent-sounding newspaper articles , discussed people she had never heard of as if they were better known than the Royal Family . |
| 11 | She hoped that he would n't suggest coming up for a coffee ; she did n't think she could rise to a social occasion at this particular moment , so she was thankful to accept her car keys , bid him a hurried , ‘ Safe journey , ’ and close the door again . |
| 12 | When my young cousin 's pet budgie died , her parents buried it in the garden while she was asleep to avoid her being upset . |
| 13 | There were only shelves and drawers in the Nannie cupboard , so she was obliged to hang it by the loops of its sash from a hook on the back of the door . |
| 14 | And she was obliged to admit he was right . |
| 15 | Since the only way she knew to the foundry was the route of her guided tour earlier that day , she was obliged to retrace it . |
| 16 | In the fight to make ends meet , she was obliged to surround herself with people . |
| 17 | In Jan 's book , all men are Bastards and some worse than others , and the one she was married to found it hard to walk on his hind legs . |
| 18 | It is not often that the Opposition play to the Government 's strengths , but , as my hon. Friend the Member for Batley and Spen ( Mrs. Peacock ) said , the council tax is a simple and fair tax , and she was right to welcome its rebate scheme and its transitional relief . |
| 19 | That was what she wanted , after all , and he knew that she was right to want it . |
| 20 | By some instinct , he knew the exact moment she relaxed , and she was shocked to find her sphincter muscle consent to the invasion of its domain . |
| 21 | When she arrived , shaking the snow off her shoes , she was shocked to find me there . |
| 22 | ‘ Because — ’ She was alarmed to find she could n't think of any good reason . |
| 23 | She was desperate to keep her mind fully occupied . |
| 24 | Her body was still fragrant from her earlier bath , but now in a frenzy of haste she was desperate to rinse it off — all of it : the perfume and the caresses — ashes of a fire with which she had stupidly played . |
| 25 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
| 26 | A day or two before she was due to move she ran into a man she had known as a rather mysterious friend of Simon 's who used to turn up on leave now and again during the war . |
| 27 | ‘ Sebastian , ’ she addressed her brother the night before she was due to present herself at G Vasey Ltd for interview , ‘ I do n't suppose you still have those specs you wore when you played a professor in — ’ |
| 28 | Explaining that she was due to meet her INLA boss Dominic ‘ Mad Dog ’ McGlinchey in the Republic that November day , she told detectives : ‘ You may find this hard to believe and think I 'm hard and callous but if Dominic had asked me to do the same again , I would have done it . ’ |
| 29 | They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day . |
| 30 | However , shortly before Anne Burford resigned as chief of the EPA , she was due to announce her decision on whether to lift the ban in light of new evidence . |