Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if she were to go voluntarily before the next election , that could only be very bad news for him . |
| 2 | He became aware that she was breaking away from the window . |
| 3 | Jezrael 's body arched languorously ; her dream-self believed she was nestling closer to the Magyar . |
| 4 | She was nodding politely on the fringes of a group listening to their host talking about himself when she heard a familiar voice behind her . |
| 5 | The black velvet dress she was wearing — the weather had changed at last — set off her pale skin and blonde hair , and she was looking forward to a new academic year . |
| 6 | He asked if she was looking forward to the sea voyage . |
| 7 | She noticed her own brusqueness , but could not help herself ; she was looking forward to the army clearing him out of Rupe . |
| 8 | She was n't sure whether she was looking forward to the evening or not . |
| 9 | In fact , stimulated by the prospect ahead , she found that she was looking forward to the evening . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , she was looking forward to the food . |
| 11 | His eyes were so alive that she felt she was looking straight into the source of his pleasure — he was the sort of man who thrived on challenge and went out to meet it head-on . |
| 12 | She was faced starkly by the absolute wonder of life , and enfolded in that double-edged knowledge was the taste and imminence of death , which would be quite simply the absence of movement in the baby : stillness . |
| 13 | She had little choice but to let him draw her close against him , until she was pressed tightly into the hard curve of his body . |
| 14 | She was speaking blindly into the mirror , concentrating on smudging violet shadows onto her closed and bulging eyelids . |
| 15 | The woman said she had , and in the filing cabinet behind , but that she was searching specifically for a pair of scissors . |
| 16 | Everything seemed to be moving in fast forward , yet she was darting lightly between the moments like a Rigelian sylph . |
| 17 | She was referred again to the same cardiologist the next year and the exercise test was again negative and she was reassured . |
| 18 | Beneath it , Harriet Shakespeare 's face was huge and haggard and she was leaning hard against the woman beside her . |
| 19 | Once she was propped comfortably against the pillows Penry Vaughan sat down again and went on with his story . |
| 20 | Anne could see that she was biting deeply into the pillow . |
| 21 | She was moving now towards the sea . |
| 22 | She saw the shadowy movement out of the corner of her eye and she was still reaching for her Beretta when she was struck heavily on the shoulder , knocking the Geiger-Muller counter from her hand . |
| 23 | Earlier she had been a research fellow ( 1929–32 ) at Newnham College , now she was director of studies there ( 1933–42 ) ; she was to serve intermittently as an associate and on the governing body . |
| 24 | She 'd been driving along the A420 Oxford to Swindon road at Pusey woods , when she was hit head-on by a stolen Vauxhall Cavalier . |
| 25 | And he saw the ring , his ring , that she was wearing openly for the occasion , beside Anne Mowbray 's wedding-ring on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 26 | She had looked up ; and like the sunflowers she was facing right into the heart of the brightness which preceded the sun . |
| 27 | She was dressed casually in a pair of faded Levi jeans , brown ankle boots and a baggy white T-shirt . |
| 28 | Her limbs were unsteady as she padded on bare feet , staggering a little , towards the door , oblivious to the fact that she was dressed only in a thin nightgown , that her half-combed hair flared untidily about her shoulders . |
| 29 | The dampness was coming in , and she was dressed only in a thin T-shirt and shorts . |
| 30 | Belinda was instantly aware of the fact that she was dressed only in the silk slip that Faye had decided best captured the mood she wanted for her painting . |