Example sentences of "she was [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 2 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 3 | But she was slow letting it burn . |
| 4 | She was tenderly dusting all the objects on the mantelpiece . |
| 5 | She was openly acknowledging him as Charles Swift 's successor and his eyes glittered with the knowledge . |
| 6 | and she was upstairs cleaning the other |
| 7 | Sitting on the veranda herself a short while later as she worked on a lacy white shawl she was secretly knitting for the baby , Belinda murmured aloud , ‘ I hope Tom comes today . |
| 8 | He made sense of none of them , but thought she was probably swearing at him . |
| 9 | Stella thought she was probably thinking about her treacherous husband . |
| 10 | She must just have got off , and she was probably watching me from somewhere high above the distant sea . |
| 11 | She was exhausted , she was close to tears or laughter , she was probably getting drunk , topping up on last night 's alcohol . |
| 12 | She was probably standing in the kitchen , listening and wringing her hands … |
| 13 | These differences led to differing perceptions of their role by the two development officers — in Ipswich the development officer was a little unsure of how she was going to ‘ work in with the existing multi-disciplinary team ’ , whereas in Newham the development officer said she felt she was probably going to spend a good deal of her time negotiating between the different services and ‘ getting them to talk to each other ’ . |
| 14 | I thought she was probably going to ask for money . |
| 15 | Kate knew she was probably going to be too blunt for her mother , who liked everything to be wrapped in euphemisms , but she did n't feel able to go on playing her gentle games . |
| 16 | She was probably going to be fired tomorrow . |
| 17 | She was probably sounding hopelessly naïve again . |
| 18 | ‘ The trees would stay , ’ she announced , knowing she was probably talking her way out of a job , ‘ almost all of them , and the ones that had to be taken down would be replaced with native specimens . |
| 19 | She was probably making something out of nothing . |
| 20 | She was probably making a big fuss about very little , said a small voice inside her . |
| 21 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 22 | It was not a problem that had ever occurred before , and although Ellie knew she was probably playing with fire she was intrigued to know how it would all turn out . |
| 23 | I wish I could have said that she was sweetly understanding , but she looked at me as if I were an incubus that had raped her and scraped along the brickwork , desperate to get past . |
| 24 | She was just slipping her feet into a pair of low black court shoes when the knock came on the door , and her heart leapt into her throat . |
| 25 | She was just getting used to the chestnut when Alejandro moved her on to a dark brown mare who , when it was n't bucking , shied at the ball , and then on to another chestnut , whom she had great difficulty in holding . |
| 26 | ‘ She was just getting old , ’ he said sadly . |
| 27 | She was just getting her breath back when the kitchen door opened and he was there , glaring at her . |
| 28 | ‘ I think she was just joking , ’ he says . |
| 29 | She was just drying them when Ana stirred and opened her eyes . |
| 30 | She was just thinking how easy he 'd be to fall in love with , and that she really must n't start cradle-snatching when he said , ‘ Perdita 's seriously good . |