Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She had mastered Eddie 's cycle and came around the corner as though she were taking part in one of the bicycle races which had recently become such a popular spectator sport . |
| 3 | She did have it all bandaged up , she were she were cleaning toilet at bottom , and er , apparently there was a piece out of it and she did n't know , and she wiped round it , it sliced it , and it were bleeding like mad , well she came across to our 'ouse , and we were n't in , and then she went to Kevin 's and she had she had it , but it , now it 's just like a line now , |
| 4 | Then she smiled though her eyes remained cold as winter and said , ‘ Are you enjoying your time in the Army ? ’ — as if she were making conversation in a drawing-room , Carrie thought , instead of standing in a hay field in summer in a long , silk ball gown . |
| 5 | Then , suddenly , it was as though she were making love to another man . |
| 6 | Mr Baker said he was concerned solely with whether Miss Giles knew or believed she was infringing copyright by showing it . |
| 7 | On Friday nights , when Bernard thought she was supervising Karate for Girls at the Christabel Focus , she met Jed in a motel . |
| 8 | Section 5 also assisted Lady Falkender when she was discussing security at Buckingham Palace and the proclivities of Commander Trestrail , the Queen 's personal bodyguard , at the time of Michael Fagan 's entry into the Queen 's bedroom in 1982 . |
| 9 | He continued his new-found movements , knowing she was deriving pleasure from them , as she writhed and moaned below him . |
| 10 | She and Miranda talked ; Xanthe was at dayschool in London , but riding was her passion , she was learning dressage on a black mare with a white star and three white pasterns . |
| 11 | Somehow she suddenly felt so overwhelmingly aware of Ven that , while recognising that she was eating beef of some kind , food as such seemed incidental . |
| 12 | And she was ordering stuff for Nana , you know , fruits , sweets , crisps all sorts of things , upstairs and downstairs and chocolates in , you know , she 'd just go up the shops and buy them . |
| 13 | Sophie frowned , trying to recall just how she had felt while she was gathering information from the lecturers at the veterinary congress . |
| 14 | Everything she was wearing shot into line . |
| 15 | The hospital authorities had tracked her down in California , where she was enjoying success as a fabric designer and living with a famous composer of film music . |
| 16 | She 'd beg , borrow or steal the money for the shoes , and if she was given notice at the store when she insisted on having the afternoon off , well , so be it . |
| 17 | ‘ Those waters were not particularly dangerous — perhaps she was taking part in some way in the ‘ pacification ’ of the Highlands . |
| 18 | She had the oddest impression that she was taking part in a play , for which she knew neither her lines , nor the stage directions . |
| 19 | Her assistant breezed in with some figures she wanted , just as she was taking hold of the Palmer & Pearson file . |
| 20 | The teacher turned up at the police station at eight the next morning to tell me she was taking responsibility for my daughter . |
| 21 | It was n't only Simon she pushed over the edge : in that defiant , violent act she was taking revenge on all those people who had ever hurt her and made her feel worthless . |
| 22 | Claudia trembled … she wanted him as much , but this was n't right ; Roman despised her , he thought she was taking Garry from his wife , and there was no way they could take this any further . |
| 23 | They said she was fond of visiting the countryside and coast and appealed for property owners to check outbuildings in case she was taking refuge from January 's cold weather . |
| 24 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 25 | Just as she was taking soup from the tureen and pouring it into her soup-plate the Hulsbys passed her table . |
| 26 | ‘ Her friends were under the impression that she was to spend Christmas with you in America . ’ |
| 27 | Her arms went round his shoulders , she buried her hot , wet face in his throat , kissing the pulse that beat so rapidly there , and she felt so moved , so deeply in love , that a hoarse sob escaped her lips and a second later she was dragging air into her lungs in a shaky breath filled with emotion . |
| 28 | She was granted bail pending an appeal against the sentence . |
| 29 | Her therapist had suggested that she should speak more fully and openly to her husband , but an ancient , instinctive residue of wisdom had told Scarlet that this would be inadvisable : she had not gone through any process of transference , did not therefore regard her therapist as omnipotent , and so her suspicion that she was wasting money on her treatment was not unfounded . |
| 30 | When the multi-storey hotel in which she was staying burst into flames trapping people on the upper floors , " Alligator " quickly summed up the situation . |