Example sentences of "she was [verb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thought she was wandering and they went away . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't know she was smoking and I do n't know where she was getting the money from , ’ said her mother . |
| 3 | She gave her word to God when she was confirmed and she kept it . |
| 4 | He had n't asked where she was staying and she had n't told him , so how had he known which hotel to bring her to ? |
| 5 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 6 | This time she was prepared and she launched quickly into a story that she was a freelance journalist doing an article for the women 's page of a national newspaper about women who joined sports clubs . |
| 7 | Where she was going and what happened that summer of 1983 are still a mystery . |
| 8 | She was hurt and it showed in her eyes . |
| 9 | She was scowling and he felt slightly impatient with her . |
| 10 | They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot . |
| 11 | I could see she was smiling and I marvelled once again at how much the eyes can say . |
| 12 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |