Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and she 'd fell in it and she were having right fits . |
| 2 | How alarmed you must have been to discover she was receiving secret messages from some mysterious adviser , who also promised he would arrange her escape from Godstowe ! |
| 3 | But I heard only this morning the story of an Arab girl whose parents have had to remove her from school because she was receiving threatening messages . |
| 4 | ‘ Quit using those big words to impress people , ’ when she had n't been aware she was using big words . |
| 5 | bloody hell Rac I tell you what I saw Rachael today and she was looking right fat and all , it , it 's just |
| 6 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
| 7 | She was learning Venetian wiliness , she thought wryly . |
| 8 | If she was addressing young people she made it her business to acquaint herself with their interests . |
| 9 | She was asked discreet questions about private health insurance and , in the face of her disclaimers , equally civil ones about her credit cards . |
| 10 | She was called Lucky Lady and had originally been bought by grandfather Alec , some forty years ago . |
| 11 | She was made Head Girl and although it was not acknowledged by anyone in authority , she was already drinking too much . |
| 12 | she had fat knees in ginger stockings which kept straying apart … he could see she was wearing apricot knickers ; |
| 13 | She taught in a health club ; aerobics , that kind of thing , and the next we knew she was wearing hot pants on a street corner in New York and strutting her stuff at the cars . |
| 14 | She was wearing blue tights and sandals and had hitched her dress well up in order to swing her legs . |
| 15 | She was wearing blue jeans , a black coat and pink and white trainers . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's that supposed to mean ? ’ asked Rose , and grimaced ; she was wearing new shoes and they were giving her gyp . |
| 17 | She was wearing clingy jeans and a ribbed woollen sweater which emphasized the lines of her body . |
| 18 | She was wearing long evening gloves , indeed seemed to be fully dressed for a ball . |
| 19 | She was wearing black trousers topped with a belted tunic in thin grey wool , high-buttoned almost to the chin , and deep-cuffed . |
| 20 | She was wearing high-heeled shoes — which is very unusual for a First Spiritualist — and she was smirking at people as if she was at a cocktail party rather than morning service . |
| 21 | He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote . |
| 22 | You do n't want to know that she was wearing odd socks and one of them was green , it 's |
| 23 | Afterwards he said : ‘ Well , she was wearing dark glasses , was n't she . |
| 24 | Luckily , she was wearing tough boots , so the trap had not torn her leg . |
| 25 | She was wearing big maternity clothes and felt " dead weird " being with everyone else in school uniform . |
| 26 | She was wearing pink shintiyan . ’ |
| 27 | She was wearing grey jogging bottoms , a lilac floral sweatshirt , white trainers and a long navy-blue overcoat when last seen in hospital . |
| 28 | She was wearing huge aviator glasses , designed to hide but only drawing attention to the palely perfect face , the unlipsticked mouth , the silvery blonde hair fine as maize silk , which was drawn back into the nape of her neck . |
| 29 | As usual , she was wearing faded jeans , a baggy T-shirt , and her long dark hair tumbled down her back . |
| 30 | She was wearing white cotton jeans , a peach-coloured T-shirt and white tennis shoes . |