Example sentences of "she [be] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely |
2 | ‘ Just one , ’ she said graciously , managing to make it sound as though she were doing him a big favour . |
3 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
4 | No , I thought she were giving them a pound and then taking change off them , she were getting change off them or summat were n't she . |
5 | She give us all these , like diseases and we had to learn parrot learn them the definition for them cos she were giving us a test on them . |
6 | Mother she 's calling me a bastard . |
7 | Not like a big one to share like she 's buying everybody a cake each . |
8 | She 's given her a cultural background for life . |
9 | She 's got that unappetizing little Yank in tow , and she 's feeding him the Authorized Version . |
10 | P'raps she 's findin' it a bit melancholy bein' wiv 'im ? ’ |
11 | She 's imploring me to return , I thought , she 's realized what a mistake she 's made . |
12 | and she 's doing you a spaghetti bolognaise , so I said oh that 'll be nice , when we got there , shall we go in the bank for an hour , I did n't feel like going out , he said come on it 'll do you good , |
13 | She 's making herself a laughing-stock . |
14 | She 's recording it the stupid cow she 's |
15 | Fifty pound 'll go to the fre exchange cos she 's giving me a hundred . |
16 | I have a servant who helps me but always I wonder if she is telling me the truth or merely being kind . ’ |
17 | Her salary is not excessive so she is setting herself a strict budget for her homebuying . |
18 | Delia Cope believes by listening to Black women 's poems she is doing us a favour . |
19 | She was using it a week later when Nathan walked in through the kitchen door . |
20 | Laying herself down beside Cad again in the hot room under the single sheet , she instructed her sister carefully , how she was to find Tommaso Talvi in town the next day , to come across him as if by accident , and then , if no one was listening , she was to give him a message . |
21 | As she spoke she was laying him a place at the kitchen table , and serving him his meal . |
22 | She was telling them a story , and they were sitting on either side of her on the sofa with their mouths hanging slightly open , Gawain meditatively fingering a lock of her long , dark hair , Damian staring at her and absently scratching his balls . |
23 | She was telling me a bit about it . |
24 | When she said , I do n't know , I think she was telling me the truth , she did n't know . |
25 | She was telling me the other day . |
26 | She was offering him the deputy to Hitler , through an intermediary who was a friend of George Vl and Winston Churchill . |
27 | Probably nothing , he was thinking , she 's only winding me up , and the thought that she was gave him a pleasurable kick . |
28 | She was asking herself the same question . |
29 | If she had thought she was showing him a stop-light , however , he must have seen it as a green one , for his arm suddenly tightened and there was a definite amorous gleam in his eye as he edged closer to her and breathed seductively , ‘ I like you so much , Fabia . ’ |
30 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |