Example sentences of "she was [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was phrasing it carefully , as if she was writing an essay . |
| 2 | She should have seen it coming , should have realised she was pushing him too hard . |
| 3 | It felt too much as if she was shunting him off for her own convenience , even though she knew that it was the only sane and sensible thing to do . |
| 4 | With this power and position , there existed a proper distance for her to keep , and on that evening she was to bridge it fatally ; worse , there was a strident note of comedy debasing further the shaming accident … |
| 5 | The knitting was in her lap and she was regarding me steadily over the spectacles . |
| 6 | She she you know she was slagging me off like anything right . |
| 7 | And she knew she was annoying them whenever she questioned their assumptions . |
| 8 | Annie had emptied the document case , now she was filling it again . |
| 9 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 10 | He 'd already seemed to sense that she was steering him somewhere . |
| 11 | She was easing her back with her hands , happy with the shoes near to completion , when young Will returned . |
| 12 | She took them off the minute she entered her apartment block , realising that since no one at Vasey 's had seen her without her glasses they had no need to question why she was wearing them now . |
| 13 | The finishing touch would have been brylcreem only she was wearing it anyway . |
| 14 | ‘ If she was wearing it there 's always the chance that someone recognised its true value , and it was stolen . ’ |
| 15 | I was surprised it to , we well going to this place yesterday er , on the directions we were with Tammy , she was reading them out and we come off the M twenty |
| 16 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 17 | In spite of her bone-weariness , all of a sudden she was facing him squarely , for she was the same height and if anything , more strongly built . |
| 18 | I wondered if she was enjoying it too . |
| 19 | She was taking it badly , closing up like a flower that felt the sun going down . |
| 20 | Doctor Milford must have told her sister the truth and she was taking it very hard . |
| 21 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 22 | Then he would test her to make sure she was taking it in . |
| 23 | There was another Zionist Congress in Vienna , and she 'd had to pass it up , because she was passing it up quite often herself then . |
| 24 | I thought at the time sh er she was leaving it pretty late . |
| 25 | Mr Larkin said : ‘ When she was leaving she always used to come and kiss both me and her mother goodbye although she was 24 years old . |
| 26 | She was trusting me not to do that , putting that power in my hands . |
| 27 | Happily she waved back , realising just how pleased she was to see them again and when , moments later , she climbed into the crowded bus with David behind her she was deafened by welcoming voices . |
| 28 | So the day had come , and she was accepting it very calmly . |
| 29 | They were losing and she knew they were going to lose and their last bloke was coming in and she was cheering them on . |
| 30 | She was cheering them on . |