Example sentences of "she was [verb] [pers pn] [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 | If she had neutered the quick of mystery in platitude before , she was smothering it with symbols now . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps she was saving it for you . ’ |
| 7 | She was regarding them with wide , dark eyes , full of uncertainty . |
| 8 | 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 ! ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | While she was helping me into yet another nightshirt , we talked . |
| 11 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 12 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 13 | She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train . |
| 14 | She was confusing him with her old dreams . |
| 15 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
| 16 | She was facing him across his desk , sitting on the dining-room chair that was specially placed for visitors with troubles . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |
| 21 | She was pursuing him like the Fury pursuing the crime . |
| 22 | I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good . |
| 23 | She trusted him , for her own part , without reserve or doubt ; but she was trusting him for those who crossed the river and took the risks . |
| 24 | Unlike the others , she did n't rush to say how pleased she was to see him after all this time ; she did n't make polite small talk about Lucasta Redburn 's death . |
| 25 | I she was throwing it around Christmas Eve though were n't she ? |
| 26 | It was a song Mr Malik sang , and she was singing it to what must , surely , be his words . |
| 27 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 28 | She felt as though she was seeing them from under a great weight . |
| 29 | She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her . |
| 30 | Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur . |