Example sentences of "she [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as if she were operating on auto-pilot . |
| 2 | ‘ I think these old places always have ghosts , ’ said Elizabeth as though she were talking of woodworm . |
| 3 | What I was on about me ringing is , she were talking in town , I says , oh , you know we 're Bi I says if ever , I were talking about you first off |
| 4 | An hour later Sophie left the pet shop feeling as though she were walking on air . |
| 5 | She also felt as if she were sitting in front of a bespectacled lunatic who was making things up as he went along . |
| 6 | Lisa looked at her as if she were suffering from softening of the brain . |
| 7 | She laughed again as Claudia said that once was too much , and from then on she treated Claudia as if she were going on holiday with the man of her dreams . |
| 8 | She braced herself as if she were going into battle , blurting the truth out as she clasped her hands together until the knuckles stood out like bleached bones . |
| 9 | She had n't planned it deliberately , but she even looked as if she were heading into battle , clad in a flying suit , flat boots and a bomber jacket , her long hair captured in a plait . |
| 10 | She heard the sounds of the battle ; she could not even croak out a song to him , for her tongue clove to her palate as if , while her baby drank , she were dying of thirst . |
| 11 | She felt as if she were floating on air . |
| 12 | She felt as if she were floating in limbo , beyond conscience , beyond responsibility and even beyond reality . |
| 13 | With his eyes closed he could see her as clearly as if she were standing in front of him . |
| 14 | Carrie felt as if she were falling through space ; falling and falling with the air pressing her chest and making her gasp . |
| 15 | Last night , she was recovering at home . |
| 16 | Theda looked her over , and saw with satisfaction that she was sinking into slumber . |
| 17 | She was looking for help , advice , that sort of thing ? ’ |
| 18 | Leapor 's only way of striking back at her father to whom she was looking for support , was , by this reasoning , to write a poem as a cathartic fantasy . |
| 19 | Or that , getting on , she was looking for adventure , a final fling ? |
| 20 | I remember seeing one and one she was pushing in front in the in the |
| 21 | She was grinning from ear to ear , her eyes sparkling in excited anticipation , like a child watching magicians at a carnival . |
| 22 | He laughed in agreement , thinking she was speaking in irony ; then he realized she was not . |
| 23 | She was functioning on instinct alone . |
| 24 | Photographers — cochons ! she was thinking in disgust . |
| 25 | Then he realized she was referring to sex . |
| 26 | The height of absurdity was reached in a case where the wife of a race-horse owner pictured with a woman he had described to the photographer as his fiancee , was allowed to recover damages on the basis that her neighbours would think she was living in sin . |
| 27 | Speaking on Sky News on the anniversary of her husband 's death , Mrs Maxwell , 71 , also denied that she was living in luxury while victims of Maxwell 's pensions ' funds plundering faced penury . |
| 28 | She did n't want Roman thinking she was angling for sympathy . |
| 29 | She was shivering with delight and pent-up desire . |
| 30 | She was shivering with fear , yet her lip curled in a snarl , I whispered , ‘ Come , Sorrel ’ , and she immediately ran towards us . |