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 . |