Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] [conj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breeze talked away for all she was worth as she cut bread-and-butter in the draughty old kitchen , but she knew that her sister was n't really listening . |
| 2 | Whenever I saw her , she always smiled at me , It was as if she 'd got me confused with someone else , someone important Once I had half an hour to wait for a transport . |
| 3 | It seemed as bright as day out on the newly-laid forecourt and it was as if she 'd been caught by the lights , trapped and dazed like a rabbit on a long country road . |
| 4 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 5 | When he reached for her free hand , clasping it in his own , it was as if she 'd touched a metal surface after walking on a nylon carpet — the shock of contact almost painful in its suddenness . |
| 6 | It was as if she 'd thrown down an invisible gauntlet on the table , and Shae knew a moment 's bleakness . |
| 7 | It was as if she 'd been given a glimpse of paradise , and then had it barred to her forever . |
| 8 | Suddenly it was as if she 'd been drugged . |
| 9 | It was as if she had vanished off the face of the earth , ’ Anthony Palmer , for the prosecution , said . |
| 10 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |
| 11 | It was as if she had a hot line to the Devil . |
| 12 | And it was as if she had glimpsed the celestial city knowing that she could never enter in . |
| 13 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 14 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 15 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 16 | It was as if she had accepted the fact that her mother had gone out of her life and that her future lay with this big fat woman , who alternately yelled and cajoled , and the nice man called Ben . |
| 17 | It was as if she had n't been aware of the girl 's presence , but she said , ‘ Stay where you are , child . |
| 18 | It was as if she had made her decision , her momentous decision to marry , sleepwalking . |
| 19 | It was as if she had been beyond the sky . |
| 20 | It was as if she had been cordoned off from it . |
| 21 | It was as if she had let go of a great burden . |
| 22 | It was as if she had spent it underground , the hibernatory flat , dusty Isis Books . |
| 23 | It was as if she had needed to do this for such a long , long time , but had only just realised it . |
| 24 | It was as if she had come to the wrong place , as if the magic that shrivelled Cinderella 's full satins to limp rag had breathed over this place , enchantment vanished in the wood , only the old dank trees still and always there . |
| 25 | It was as if she had shot him with a tranquillising dart . |
| 26 | It was as if she had been having a nightmare — terrible , perhaps , but still only a dream in which the money could vanish like fairy gold — and woken up to find it was true . |
| 27 | It was as if she had said something and it had caused a click in his mind that brought down the shutters to keep her out . |
| 28 | It was as if she had been playing a part with all her might for several months , but it had sapped her energy . |
| 29 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |
| 30 | Lori seemed to shudder right through to her very bones ; then it was as if she had shaken off a darkness that had possessed her for too long . |