Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her nose wrinkled at the smell of beer , and she kicked off her mink-trimmed bootees as if she were kicking Boyd . |
| 2 | Nicola smiled , as if she were catching Helen out in some childishly transparent ruse . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She listened purely as if she were receiving information intended to entertain , not to disturb , from the radio . |
| 6 | Helen felt as if she were hearing Nicola for the first time . |
| 7 | As she walked into the room she saw Neil 's eyes hard on her , registering her beautiful gown , her carefully dressed hair , and even though the gown was plain she looked like a queen of society in it , she knew , and she wished that she were wearing McAllister 's shabby bottle-green shirtwaister again . |
| 8 | She says she would probably end up being ‘ paranoid ’ if she were to reach supermodel status . |
| 9 | 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 , |
| 10 | The woman on the screen frowned as if she were having difficulty seeing them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then , suddenly , it was as though she were making love to another man . |
| 13 | She spread out the balance sheet of her life rather as if she were playing Patience . |
| 14 | It was as if she were arranging flowers or carding wool . |
| 15 | She was christened Vicky . |
| 16 | She was receiving oxygen and had to be raised every 30 minutes to enable her to clear sputum from her lungs , a process with which the father assisted . |
| 17 | ‘ She was receiving messages . |
| 18 | She was receiving curtain calls nearly as long as his and on the Saturday night performance a spontaneous ( spontaneous — ha — Willi Zimmermann was in the house again ) burst of cheering broke out when she took her call . |
| 19 | If it was your wife working for Abbey Life , would you like it if she was breaking appointments and out every night and all the rest of it . |
| 20 | Aware that she was causing David a deal of agony just being in the same room as Luther , Beth turned to him now , saying with some tenderness , ‘ And you , David ? |
| 21 | Mr Baker said he was concerned solely with whether Miss Giles knew or believed she was infringing copyright by showing it . |
| 22 | When we got to Nelly 's the fire was low , but while she was collecting newspapers I filled the kettle and using the old leather bellows stoked up the heat . |
| 23 | She was collecting glasses and plates from all over , slinging the contents in a vile bucket , and Philippa noticed that she was n't particularly careful where she stubbed out the cigarette that dropped a little trail of ash wherever she went . |
| 24 | Perhaps she was misusing English . |
| 25 | We have missed her bad badly , especially in Astley , where she was to organize things , and I 'm sure er the meeting sends George er our condolences . |
| 26 | Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " . |
| 27 | She was using condoms and advised me to do the same . |
| 28 | She was dubbed rebel ; troublesome . |
| 29 | She was to pick Emma up from school at half past three … . |
| 30 | You would , ’ muttered April from the sink where she was peeling potatoes . |