Example sentences of "she was n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't crowned till after but she was told ! |
| 2 | Also , she was n't liked by people , business associates and artists , which made my life very difficult . |
| 3 | She sneered and bullied and slobbered : she nagged my father to death , and when she was n't nagging she was muttering . |
| 4 | She was n't listening either . |
| 5 | Mark leapt in after her shouting commands and trying to cajole her back to shore , but she was n't listening . |
| 6 | Mr Evans 's voice boomed on about the things he had done when he was a boy — mostly earning money in his spare time to help his poor mother — but though Auntie Lou seemed to be listening , she was n't listening to him . |
| 7 | Tony looked at Greta Ross but she was n't listening . |
| 8 | It was as if she was n't listening . |
| 9 | But she was n't listening . |
| 10 | Caro knew she was n't listening . |
| 11 | She was n't listening . |
| 12 | She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to know why she was n't stopped there , ’ an angry voice from the other side of the room interrupted him . |
| 14 | If she was n't mistaken , someone above had just licked his backside and , true to naval tradition , he was passing the reprimand down . |
| 15 | Aggie , of course , knew she was in for , what was termed , a bit of confidential chat ; and she was n't mistaken , because Mrs Kirkley , without any preamble , began by saying , ‘ There is more than one reason why I have suggested this position for Millie . |
| 16 | Surely she was n't mistaken … |
| 17 | The smile on her sweet mouth quickly faded though the moment the door was opened and she at once took in the unusual pallor of Cara 's skin and the fact that , if she was n't mistaken , her dear sister had recently been crying . |
| 18 | ‘ And one of the conditions of her bail was that she was n't to go anywhere near Times Square until her case went to court , ’ Carmen said . |
| 19 | She was n't looking forward to it , which is a little surprising for a 16 year old who , just 3 years ago , combined all the elements of her talent to produce the compound which exploded her on to the junior tennis scene ! |
| 20 | She came out of the room , pulling her bag of soiled linen , and because she was n't looking where she was going , almost cannoned into a tall dark girl . |
| 21 | But this afternoon she was n't looking for spare rides . |
| 22 | Daisy wished just for once that Drew could see her when she was n't looking awful . |
| 23 | It had more to do with the easy communion between Katherine and Thomas Sachs , the way his eyes sometimes fell on her when she was n't looking . |
| 24 | Sophie was at his side , head bowed , but she was n't looking . |
| 25 | She was n't looking forward to her turn . |
| 26 | But she was n't looking up high enough to see something that shifted my pulse rate along a notch or two . |
| 27 | She was n't looking at me . |
| 28 | She could feel the force of his personality even though she was n't looking at him . |
| 29 | Expecting more of the same , she was n't looking forward to the seminar that followed . |
| 30 | Even though she was n't looking at him , she knew he was smiling scornfully , and the awareness made her clench her hands into fists . |