Example sentences of "i [verb] she [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean she was just in our department you see . |
| 2 | I mean she was upstairs three quarters of an hour and when she came to the top of the stairs she still just had her vest and knickers on . |
| 3 | I mean she was only seeing the last one off when I came home from work ! |
| 4 | She had little option but to do so , nor do I think she was particularly amused . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I expect she was very pretty when she was young . ’ |
| 6 | I expect she was so excited that she did n't stop to look up trains . |
| 7 | ‘ I noticed she was badly bruised . |
| 8 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 9 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 10 | I know she was always on about she 's frightened in there on her own |
| 11 | Rhoda Annie Dent was her full name and I understand she was once invited to speak on the Queen Mary during one voyage . |
| 12 | I believe she was very young — just a little thing — but it must have seemed the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 13 | I suppose she was so grateful that she became one of his flock . |
| 14 | I knew she was just as scared as I was when we heard the cat on the stairs . |
| 15 | I knew she was registered at Essex , I knew she was basically dishonest , a boozer , a feminist and — from the brief glimpse I 'd caught of her in the Mimosa Club — no featherweight . |
| 16 | But I knew she was too proud to do that . |
| 17 | By the way she sat there I knew she was home , she was all confident ! |
| 18 | I thought she were never gon na , I said to her for goodness sake , drink it ! |
| 19 | I thought she was slowly coming round to us . |
| 20 | I thought she was probably going to ask for money . |
| 21 | I thought she was just standing there twisting the neck of this duck . |
| 22 | I thought she was just being awkward until she slowly went downhill and became incontinent . |
| 23 | I thought she was quite mad . |
| 24 | I thought she was never going to stop until I heard a woman say , ‘ I see 'er 's still showin' off . ’ |
| 25 | I thought she was really very nice and my opinion was formed from that one meeting with her by pure accident . |
| 26 | I thought she was really lucky though ! |
| 27 | I thought she was startlingly beautiful , even in her grief , with her fair hair tucked under a dainty mourning bonnet , and her slim upright figure . |
| 28 | ‘ But I thought she was still working for you . |
| 29 | Well I did n't realise she had another job , I thought she was still looking . |
| 30 | I thought she was very brave was n't she ? |