Example sentences of "that she [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He 'd already seemed to sense that she was steering him somewhere . |
| 4 | He had the notion that she was mocking him , and the anger he had felt earlier returned in a different form , a determination to excel , to beat other men who had been with her . |
| 5 | The trash , getting ready to protest at this change in plans and then his jaw dropping at his first sight of Lucy ; getting into the cab with him , knowing what she was doing but somehow feeling that she was watching it all from somewhere else . |
| 6 | She stopped abruptly , perhaps fearing that she was boring me . |
| 7 | So she held back on her questioning , though she somehow found that she was telling him of her love of music and how Janáček 's lively sixth movement was one of her particular favourites . |
| 8 | She could n't tell him that it had aroused her ; that the smarting of her breasts and belly and buttocks had combined to generate an absurd pleasure ; that the gentle scourging of her flesh had stimulated a tide of salaciousness ; that she was enjoying it . |
| 9 | Auxilliary nurse at BUPA Murrayfield Hospital Michael Douglas told the jury at Liverpool Crown Court : ‘ If he was talking about his marriage he would say they were breaking up or that she was leaving him . |
| 10 | He could hurt her with so little , she reflected , realising that she was finding it more and more difficult to keep hatred alive as a counterbalance to love . |
| 11 | I 'm fine , ’ Laura mumbled , so used to silence first thing in the morning that she was finding it incredibly difficult to carry on any form of conversation . |
| 12 | His long , inexplicable silence had resulted in her feeling such misery that she was finding it difficult to eat or sleep . |
| 13 | Now , all that mattered was that she was following him up the stairs to an elegant Georgian town house . |
| 14 | Then , only a beat later it seemed to him , shame and anger raced back to take possession of him again , and so overcome by these conflicting feelings was he that he had no consciousness of her in all this , until he became aware , to his surprise , that she was shaking him out of his stupor , bringing him to her again with her mouth and her hands . |
| 15 | The more likely explanation is that she was pressurising him to leave your daughter to marry her . |
| 16 | She said most of it was it was n't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him pushing it in . |
| 17 | And it were n't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like . |
| 18 | He wanted to be alone with her , to anticipate the night to come , and he guessed that she was teasing him . |
| 19 | He sensed that she was judging him . |
| 20 | Still peering from the corner of his eye , Frankie stared at her breasts for a long time before he realized with a jolt that she was observing him through the mirror . |
| 21 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 22 | He was too intelligent not to know that she was reassuring him . |
| 23 | Probably nothing , he was thinking , she 's only winding me up , and the thought that she was gave him a pleasurable kick . |
| 24 | ‘ Then I shall get a train in the opposite direction , ’ he said , thinking that there was something sad about it , especially now that she was thanking him politely for the drinks . |
| 25 | Gesturing that she was to follow him , he began to march along the path that led down the hill , and was quickly out of sight . |
| 26 | It would only make Luke think that she was distrusting him again . |
| 27 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 28 | IT would have to be demonstrated , for example , that she was placing them in moral or physical danger with her lifestyle . ’ |
| 29 | All this he had concluded from a rather wistful statement that she was missing him . |
| 30 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |