Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
| 2 | her in , her the launderette were asking me er she was , she were on about I , ai n't you got a job yet ? |
| 3 | Well he must have it cos she were on about it yesterday were n't she ? |
| 4 | I know he w she were on about a room were n't she ? |
| 5 | She were on about Graham , she 's seen him loads of times this week . |
| 6 | Anyway I were , I were talking to that lady and er she were on about you , and she says about putting your name |
| 7 | He 's the sort of young man Sara should marry — if only she were n't in America … |
| 8 | Mind you if she was erm she were n't in love with a poor man , then yeah , but no I do n't think she is . |
| 9 | Sh she pays me fifty pounds , she rang me up she were away to a funeral |
| 10 | ‘ One minute she were up by the carriage , the next she were down on her back like a tumbled ewe . ’ |
| 11 | The picture he had painted was so vivid that once again she felt as if she were about to be sick . |
| 12 | How she wishes she were back in her snug little house , tapping away on her word-processor , dissecting the lexemes of some classic Victorian novel , delicately detaching the hermeneutic code from the proairetic code , the cultural from the symbolic , surrounded by books and files , the gas fire hissing and a cup of coffee steaming at her elbow . |
| 13 | She felt as if she were back in a milieu which she understood , that she had an indefinable rapport with this tall , shaggy , rather solitary figure , dressed in jeans and an open-necked shirt and , as she had just observed , running-shoes . |
| 14 | For one aching , unguarded moment she wished she were back in his arms , nestled against his hard body . |
| 15 | Fabia stirred , awakened in her hotel bedroom that Monday and , as memory awakened with her , she abruptly closed her lovely green eyes and wished for a moment that she were back in England . |
| 16 | In fact , if she were there for two months , it would be unlikely that it would regard her as a resident . |
| 17 | Well she were there for two hours just trying to . |
| 18 | I think mam said she were in on Tuesday |
| 19 | In Margaret Thatcher 's time — he wished that she were still at the helm — the party could always look forward to a damn good Leader 's speech on the last afternoon . |
| 20 | If she were still in Britain , it would be too late for her to say much in time for morning editions . |
| 21 | She tried to make Martha speak high English at home as if she were still in school , but the old woman often lapsed into patois herself . |
| 22 | " Dear Virginia , " he said quietly , as if she were still by his side . |
| 23 | Such was the speculation that Hurd and Major — Thatcher 's two nominators for the contest — were obliged to issue a joint statement insisting that they would not stand against Mrs Thatcher in a second ballot , but this all too clearly left open the possibility that they would stand if she were out of the contest . |
| 24 | ‘ One minute she were up by the carriage , the next she were down on her back like a tumbled ewe . ’ |
| 25 | Jinny went bright red and started towards the door so fast that Keith did not catch her up until she was outside on the path . |
| 26 | She was outside on the step , gazing at the winter afternoon . |
| 27 | As Maura watched the dust motes flying through the air in the rays of the June sun she wished that she was outside with the younger children . |
| 28 | She was outside for just a second . |
| 29 | She was outside in the garage |
| 30 | If you asked him she ought to be put away for she was plainly off her trolley . |