Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She were n't half giving it him ! |
| 2 | Her voice died away as if she were too tired to speak . |
| 3 | ‘ They must have been pushed to have put that in ! ’ she told him scornfully , although she was secretly pleased to see that the camera had been kind to her . |
| 4 | ‘ Goodbye , ’ said Jill , shaking his hand , which she was secretly surprised to notice was soft and clean . |
| 5 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
| 6 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
| 7 | Later , he was to learn that the terraces were really the best area , for here a woman would take pride in being seen to hand over some cast-offs , because , in a way , this indicated that she was well able to replace them . |
| 8 | and yes she was just all covered |
| 9 | Kathryn , who is married with an 18-month-old daughter , said she was just curious to know whether these experiences could be connected with reincarnation and says that at times : ‘ I feel restless , a sort of sad yearning for what could have been a past life . ’ |
| 10 | She must not let that happen again , she must not , and with Dr Neil looking at her so sharply — and why was that ? — she was just able to turn her thoughts away from the unthinkable into whose pit she had just fallen . |
| 11 | She was just glad to see him . |
| 12 | She was also pleased to welcome , our Liaison Officer at The Sports Council . |
| 13 | She was also keen to meet them . |
| 14 | She was also prone to frequent and severe migraine headaches , and she had a wheezy chest which had led to her first asthma attack which worried her greatly . |
| 15 | She was also scared to undress in front of him . |
| 16 | Throughout her adventurous journeys she kept careful notes of her experiences , from which it is clear that , although she often stayed in grand hotels and the mansions of her friends , she was also prepared to sleep in monasteries , roadside inns , and , if necessary , peasants ' cottages or even in her own carriage . |
| 17 | To an extent Laura found the superior knowledge of some of her employees unnerving but she was also prepared to learn from them , her own tastes changing subtly in the process . |
| 18 | She was also able to recruit and train several local native English-speaking SEFIC examiners and to conduct approximately 350 SEFIC examinations . |
| 19 | The simplest cultural dimension is to use local authority administrative areas but these often lag behind significant changes in population composition , and although Robertson 's ( 1961 ) classification already outlined , defined 75 per cent of the areas as rural-urban , she was also able to comment that this reflected not only the extent of the outward movement from towns , but also the inadequacy of the census definition of rural population , namely all persons living in administrative Rural Districts . |
| 20 | She was also amused to see that Comfort was shaking his hand and even inviting him to share their table . |
| 21 | She was n't pleased to see him any more . |
| 22 | But she was n't obliged to return his kiss , and she did n't , keeping her mouth firmly shut , her body rigid in her attempts not to respond to him . |
| 23 | Diana admits that she was n't easy to handle during that baptism of fire . |
| 24 | She was n't able to finish , but Ace had no qualms . |
| 25 | In the end she was n't able to resist the temptation to find out , to know . |
| 26 | My sister , Violet , was one she coached to that standard but she was n't able to take her place at grammar school because the uniform she had to have was beyond the means of my family . |
| 27 | She was n't able to walk . |
| 28 | She was n't able to have any herself . ’ |
| 29 | It was as if a fall lay within her that she was n't able to make . |
| 30 | She was n't surprised to see Doone , only resigned . |