Example sentences of "she was [verb] [adv prt] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was conducted up flights of stone stairs with wrought-iron balustrades to her huge room , whose walls were painted a bright dark blue — a colour which reminded her of a postcard of Van Gogh 's " Starry Night " , and even more of the colour behind the fleurs de lys on the banners in Olivier 's film of Henry V. Its powdery darkness amazed her : no English room was ever dark blue : maybe this was more like Reckitt 's blue ? |
| 2 | But while she was setting out plates , a tongue of fury ripped along her spine . |
| 3 | Sometimes she felt she was crunching up shards of glass , blood all over her mouth . |
| 4 | ‘ She was running up debts , and when her full-time employment ceased not only did she have her alcohol problem but also had a number of clothing clubs pursuing her . ’ |
| 5 | She looked as if she was fighting back tears . |
| 6 | Bertha Cohen turned her head aside , and Judith knew she was fighting back tears for her own family — her parents , her brothers and sister — who had not escaped . |
| 7 | Rain thought she was conjuring up keys , clutched in the fingers of the dead man . |
| 8 | At the moment she was cutting up courgettes and dropping them into a saucepan containing peppers and onions and tomatoes . |