Example sentences of "she was [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mr Baker said he was concerned solely with whether Miss Giles knew or believed she was infringing copyright by showing it . |
| 4 | Perhaps she was misusing English . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | She was dubbed rebel ; troublesome . |
| 7 | On Friday nights , when Bernard thought she was supervising Karate for Girls at the Christabel Focus , she met Jed in a motel . |
| 8 | ‘ She was seeking help ? |
| 9 | But she was seeking comfort , nothing else . |
| 10 | Mr Fairbairn told the court how he believed Lawrie had ‘ subconsciously ’ become involved in the offence after she was denied promotion when the post of head cashier became vacant . |
| 11 | She was counting silver ice buckets for the do . |
| 12 | And then she was buying furniture and things like that is here too somewhere . |
| 13 | Section 5 also assisted Lady Falkender when she was discussing security at Buckingham Palace and the proclivities of Commander Trestrail , the Queen 's personal bodyguard , at the time of Michael Fagan 's entry into the Queen 's bedroom in 1982 . |
| 14 | She was discussing Dot . |
| 15 | He continued his new-found movements , knowing she was deriving pleasure from them , as she writhed and moaned below him . |
| 16 | Alexandra ate her pudding in two savage mouthfuls and gulped as if she was swallowing medicine . |
| 17 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |
| 18 | Only when she was undertaking solo engagements did she appear to come alive . |
| 19 | She and Miranda talked ; Xanthe was at dayschool in London , but riding was her passion , she was learning dressage on a black mare with a white star and three white pasterns . |
| 20 | Somehow she suddenly felt so overwhelmingly aware of Ven that , while recognising that she was eating beef of some kind , food as such seemed incidental . |
| 21 | She was drinking vinegar ! |
| 22 | A huge local family came in as she was drinking coffee , and suddenly there were voices and laughter as they arranged the stately grandmother at the head of the table , the boisterous children banished to the other end . |
| 23 | And she was ordering stuff for Nana , you know , fruits , sweets , crisps all sorts of things , upstairs and downstairs and chocolates in , you know , she 'd just go up the shops and buy them . |
| 24 | I still did n't know why she was called Beeby . |
| 25 | The two boats were running along the coastline on almost parallel courses , Ewen close in , perforce following the jagged line of the shore , and our boat ( I found later that she was called Sea Otter ) on a straight course some way out . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's awfully wild , ’ she said , ‘ but you are going the right way ’ — she was proceeding east and going into the storm at the time — and she thanked me for opening the gate . |
| 27 | Sophie frowned , trying to recall just how she had felt while she was gathering information from the lecturers at the veterinary congress . |
| 28 | Physically I could tell she was experiencing pleasure . |
| 29 | And was this strange emotion she was experiencing jealousy ? |
| 30 | And then suddenly , just as Artemis felt Buttons was beginning to tire and that she was regaining control , as they topped a hill and began the run down the opposite side , a hedge loomed up in front of her , divided by a solid looking five-bar gate which was firmly closed . |