Example sentences of "now she [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now she was holding the dress . |
| 2 | Now she was inserting the throat and ear plugs with which she would hear and communicate and breathe . |
| 3 | She managed to give the would-be lawn a rough cut with an ancient mower she found in the outside store , and now she was tackling the border where already green shoots pierced the earth with promise . |
| 4 | Now she was finding the affluent West had its own poor and destitute : " There are so many sad and lost people — psychiatric , emotional , problems of insecurity and alienation . " |
| 5 | At the time this had seemed appropriate , but now she was regretting the formal atmosphere . |
| 6 | As always she had won her way , and now she was paying the price of it . |