Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she were to open the door perhaps the blackness would be out there now , ready to swallow her , as it had almost done on that previous occasion ; or would she wander endlessly in a limbo of greyness , forever trapped between Johnny 's time and her own ? |
| 2 | If , in Lady Chatterley 's Lover , the scales were to fall from Connie 's eyes and she were to see the worship of Mellor 's phallus for what it is , a means of subordinating and oppressing women , she could free herself and develop her authentic will , ego and individuality . |
| 3 | He wondered if she were telling the truth and decided that it hardly mattered . |
| 4 | It was an innocuous question , so why did she suddenly feel as if she were facing the Inquisition ? |
| 5 | And what if she were to leave the shelter of the house ? |
| 6 | ‘ Well at least we 've got this beano thanks to her — Aunt 's been planning it for weeks , ever since she heard that this lady might be coming down here , you 'd think she were dining the Prince des Galles . ’ |
| 7 | [ The minority ] believes that no good would come to children , husband or wife if she were given the protection of the criminal law . |
| 8 | As the Rallye droned towards the lighthouse on the tip of Cap Camerat , Miranda felt as if she were breathing the air of the gods . |
| 9 | ‘ I decided not to go with the Parslows , ’ she announced , as though she were saying the most reasonable thing in the world , but her lips were numb with fright , Papa was such a hard man to defy . |
| 10 | Second , there are many loopholes in the legislation ; for instance , until very recently a woman could only claim equal pay if she were doing the identical work of a man and , since occupations are typically segregated by sex , it is often difficult to find such a comparable man . |
| 11 | She tried not to sound as though she were interrogating the older woman . |
| 12 | as if she were putting the same reel of film back in the projector , she ran through the whole scene once again : she is speaking to the visitor , Paul is watching them with astonishment , and the guest is saying : ‘ In your next life , do you want to stay together or never meet again ? ’ |
| 13 | With her uplifted left foot she was shoving the next foster mother square in the mouth . |
| 14 | She was organising the next bout , to take place soon after the election , shortly before she died . |
| 15 | As the narrator explained that ‘ Jane would soon have to move on ’ , because she was reaching the limit of her maximum stay in the council-owned hostel , we watched her rinse the sink , wipe the draining board and hang up the dishcloth . |
| 16 | Furthermore , she was reaching the point when she knew she could n't go on working with Beatrice and the others , deceiving them with her wrong-doings . |
| 17 | The broadcast brought an instant response from Gloucestershire Environmental Health Officers , who visited Mrs Stainton Kelly and warned she was breaking the law : |
| 18 | The broadcast brought an instant response from Gloucestershire Environmental Health Officers , who visited Mrs Stainton Kelly and warned she was breaking the law : |
| 19 | Miss Giles had earlier told Wells Street magistrates that she had not considered the film to be ‘ a very hot potato ’ and had not realised she was breaking the law when she showed it to about 120 people last April . |
| 20 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 21 | It was also reported that a new chapter in Andrew Morton 's controversial biography of the Princess would include details of a letter from the Duke warning her of the damage she was causing the Royal Family . |
| 22 | As well as the two vases and the cake stand , she was clutching the remnants of the shrivelled flowers . |
| 23 | Getting hold of Clarissa , wherever she was entertaining the troops and having her transported to London , was apparently no more than a mild challenge . |
| 24 | She was using the man 's death to work at his sympathy . |
| 25 | And in this last day , she must have been camping about , I do n't know how , but somehow she was traversing I she probably did n't she was using the living room as a store , I could only think that , she could n't possibly live in it . |
| 26 | She was looking the other way and did n't see me . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ That 's a good sign , ’ she told the clipboard on which she was entering the details of his pulse rate . |
| 28 | She explained that she was chairing the meeting in the absence of Elizabeth Varley , who is ill . |
| 29 | Even when he knew she was speaking the truth about Dana he would continue to think she was out for all she could get , and she had only herself to blame . |
| 30 | She was speaking the truth . |