Example sentences of "she were [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | So what I did is I writ thirty plus thirty four , adding up to sixty four and she jumped up and she 's grabbing thing off table and she had hold of the screwdriver and I says to Linda thought she was gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were n't , she were looking for a pencil so she could rub it out , well she could n't and she found this pencil and she scribbled thirty four out . |
2 | So she jumped up , grabbed the pencil and everything , she got a screwdriver first , I thought she were gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were looking for a pencil |
3 | She was anxious not to make a noise , but even though her feet fell softly into the leaves strewing the path the wood was so still and silent that she really felt as if she were thudding through the wood . |
4 | Seated in the tube train , she felt as if she were thundering through the earth in a time-capsule , guided by a power greater than herself , without real roots or destination . |
5 | ‘ You looked wonderful , ’ she said , as if she were speaking to a ten-year-old after a school play . |
6 | She looked as if she were drowning in a goldfish tank . |
7 | Claudia felt as if she were drowning in a pool of conflicting emotions ; the last thing she wanted was to go anywhere with Roman and yet the thought of being with him for a little while longer filled her with delight . |
8 | Folly felt as if she were struggling against a tide . |
9 | And she were living in the parks . |
10 | You know , what she were wearing in the book ? |
11 | How difficult it was to try to keep her feet on the ground , when inside she felt as if she were poised on the brink of a wild and wonderful adventure . |
12 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
13 | Wincing involuntarily , feeling as if she were groping in a dark quicksand , she said quickly , ‘ Business … ’ |
14 | Actually , Ruby was considering how well publicized her intervention in the case would be if she were to work from the Post newsroom . |
15 | She felt as if she were suspended over a chasm between a past that was dark and terrifying and a future that inexorably beckoned . |
16 | She felt as though she were suffocating in the heat , as though it were stopping her nostrils , sealing her mouth , and when she tried to breathe it forced itself down into her stomach and made her heave . |
17 | She held out her hand , palm upwards now , and moved her head slowly as she looked at Aggie as if she were talking to a friend who would understand that a cousin of hers had not married beneath her . |
18 | ‘ But if I tell you , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said , as though she were talking to an idiot , ‘ I 'm putting Liam 's life in worse danger . |
19 | Shae was made of different stuff ; in his company she felt as though she were walking under a permanent spotlight , and the awareness of questioning eyes upon her made her deeply uncomfortable . |
20 | Lee was cold suddenly as if she were sitting in a seawind . |
21 | I was staring at her as if she were turning into a witch in front of my eyes . |
22 | She realised that she was feeling almost excited , as if she were going on an adventurous journey into unknown country . |
23 | When he stopped his work for tea , the prying landlady being out at the shops , he would try to arrange to meet her , either in the house or at the British Museum if she were going near the West End that day . |
24 | Pins and needles tingled in her fingers and toes , creeping along her limbs until she felt as if she were disconnected from the world . |
25 | He was the man she loved , and she felt as if she were floating above the ground . |
26 | She felt as if she were floating on a soft , fleecy cloud , and quite sure that she never wanted to return to earth . |
27 | She spoke as if she were admitting to a considerable lapse of manners on her part . |
28 | And then the silence of the hillside was rent by a further sound , a high buzzing at first like a gigantic and enraged wasp , and then a roar and a rending of the air , so that Molly felt as though she were standing on the bridge of a warship and some huge Exocet missile was being hurled in her direction . |
29 | She felt as though she were standing on the edge of a great chasm , with him on the other side urging her to jump across to him . |
30 | And she felt , though comfortable in bed , as if she were standing with the rain sluicing all over her , streaming soothing over her breasts and down her thighs , warm and comforting and she hoped that he was not in difficulties on the road and that he was thinking about the rain . |