Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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31 The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage .
32 But he continued to advance , for she was accusing him of going out of his mind .
33 Now she was accusing me in front of a stranger .
34 And they thought she was favouring me .
35 If she had neutered the quick of mystery in platitude before , she was smothering it with symbols now .
36 And she was drowning she had to break her leg !
37 She was planning to get into university on demobilisation , to study history , and wherever she was posted she was accompanied by a large wooden crate of study books .
38 I thought she was clutching it as she went past here but erm , oh you 've had some ?
39 She was phrasing it carefully , as if she was writing an essay .
40 I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later .
41 She was using it a week later when Nathan walked in through the kitchen door .
42 Although it was her first furlough she was using it to study for her Master 's Degree at Sidney University .
43 She should have seen it coming , should have realised she was pushing him too hard .
44 So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’
45 oh she was shouting at him at dinner time Steven oh god dinner time she was shouting him
46 ‘ Perhaps she was saving it for you . ’
47 It felt too much as if she was shunting him off for her own convenience , even though she knew that it was the only sane and sensible thing to do .
48 With this power and position , there existed a proper distance for her to keep , and on that evening she was to bridge it fatally ; worse , there was a strident note of comedy debasing further the shaming accident …
49 She was regarding them with wide , dark eyes , full of uncertainty .
50 The knitting was in her lap and she was regarding me steadily over the spectacles .
51 She she you know she was slagging me off like anything right .
52 And then we sat at the far side of the Old Gate bridge and er an old lady came along and said , and she was counting them but she said , just look at that thing , she counted seven although , in actual fact , by then th these dra the seven drakes had stopped cha chasing the duck and they were all sitting down .
53 Then , just as she was thinking she had better sound battle stations because he did n't look best pleased by what he saw , he suggested affably , ‘ Come on in , take a seat , ’ and indicated a chair at the other side of his desk .
54 that 's right , yes , cos she was thinking it was Friday , oh , you were there were you ?
55 And she knew she was annoying them whenever she questioned their assumptions .
56 I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’
57 Annie had emptied the document case , now she was filling it again .
58 She was determined he should qualify as a doctor and just as determined that he should practise here .
59 She was determined he should go , a feeling reinforced by that odd unresolved little conversation with Wickham .
60 ‘ She is a police officer and naturally in the light of her vocation she was determined he was not going to get away with it .
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