Example sentences of "she was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he continued to advance , for she was accusing him of going out of his mind . |
| 2 | Now she was accusing me in front of a stranger . |
| 3 | In the first place , she was accusing herself of hypocrisy . |
| 4 | If she had neutered the quick of mystery in platitude before , she was smothering it with symbols now . |
| 5 | She was clutching something in her right hand , something covered in white powder , as she weaved towards us and sat down heavily and out of breath . |
| 6 | She was clutching one in her hand ; its edge dug into her palm . |
| 7 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps she was saving it for you . ’ |
| 10 | She was saving herself for Elder Seth . |
| 11 | She was regarding them with wide , dark eyes , full of uncertainty . |
| 12 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 13 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 14 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 15 | She already felt that she was learning something about art . |
| 16 | While she was helping me into yet another nightshirt , we talked . |
| 17 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 18 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 19 | She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train . |
| 20 | She was confusing him with her old dreams . |
| 21 | Gaston , the committee man , who had been eyeing Ingrid the entire evening , trying to discern if she was wearing anything at all under the gold waistcoat , hurried over and pulled her to her feet . |
| 22 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
| 23 | She was facing him across his desk , sitting on the dining-room chair that was specially placed for visitors with troubles . |
| 24 | She was babbling something about helicopters . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She hated watching sport normally , but Jack guessed that she was taking none of it in . |
| 29 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |
| 30 | She was pursuing him like the Fury pursuing the crime . |