Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] she be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must think she was babbling like a schoolgirl , but there was nothing even remotely schoolgirlish about her growing awareness of this man . |
| 2 | He must know she was coming by now , too . |
| 3 | I should imagine she is gazing at the floor , pursuing some thought which has escaped sideways from the main line of march , while he gazes almost anywhere but at her . |
| 4 | He could see she was preparing for a party . |
| 5 | She got on there and you could see she was gon na throw . |
| 6 | ‘ She used to say she was coming for a day and stay a week , ’ Rosemary said . |
| 7 | The height of absurdity was reached in a case where the wife of a race-horse owner pictured with a woman he had described to the photographer as his fiancee , was allowed to recover damages on the basis that her neighbours would think she was living in sin . |