Example sentences of "[conj] she was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't , I do n't think they knew that she was was his |
| 2 | The landlady repeated that she was being very lenient with him but generosity on her part was not without limits , my girl . |
| 3 | And there , after her warming-up exercises , she leaped like a gazelle , undisturbed by the fact that she was being filmed on video by two pupils and barely noticing that during the session a small group of people tiptoed on to the gallery , and she did her last jump to applause . |
| 4 | She describes how a porpoise appeared and guided her so that she was being carried with the tide , and then helped her to a section of shallow water . |
| 5 | Jinny knew that she was being mean . |
| 6 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 7 | The aunt had told Grandma ( or Jane , as they always called her ) that she was being ‘ used ’ . |
| 8 | The idea that she was being punished began to obsess her and she could think of nothing else the whole winter . |
| 9 | Elisabeth calculated correctly that a glance in Mitzi 's direction would satisfy the Austrian that she was being listened to . |
| 10 | She had suffered paranoid delusions for a number of months , that the house was electronically ‘ bugged ’ , that there was a camera in the television watching her and that she was being followed . |
| 11 | Maggie dimly became aware that she was being spoken to . |
| 12 | That she was being merely tiresome was undoubted . |
| 13 | It was while she was wiping her face that she began to get an uncanny feeling that she was being watched . |
| 14 | He grinned broadly , leaving her in no doubt that she was being teased . |
| 15 | For some reason I did n't believe her when she said this ; I was n't convinced that she was being straight . |
| 16 | Her parents , although they loved their daughter , were not the most understanding of people and assumed that she was being disobedient . |
| 17 | She then had to visualize walking slowly towards them , knowing that she could stop whenever she wanted to so that she did not feel that she was being compelled to go near these birds . |
| 18 | This indicated to her that she was being associated with occult and New Age practitioners , since becoming a registered Aromatherapist . |
| 19 | Her parents felt that she was being difficult and kept presenting her with toys and activities that she could not do . |
| 20 | But she knew that she was being less than honest . |
| 21 | Hari stared around the silent building , there was no-one about , the silence hung heavily over the rows of seats , the stage was hidden by a thick curtain and yet Hari had the eerie sensation that she was being watched . |
| 22 | Whereas at first she had welcomed the assessment she later came to the view that she was being given no say in the objectives of the assessment . |
| 23 | While at the height of the Bank Holiday disturbances there was what was described as a ‘ Midnight Riot ’ in the vicinity of Euston Road when a policeman attempted to deal with a disorderly woman who ‘ began to shriek , and … screamed that she was being choked ’ . |
| 24 | She hesitated , conscious that she was being required to take a decision that must change the whole course of her life . |
| 25 | She lay perfectly still , curled up like a ball , rapturous that she was being fucked . |
| 26 | After a seemingly interminable journey through what sounded like continual thunder , low walls of tangy wood rose up around her , and she realized in horror that she was being lowered into a coffin . |
| 27 | ‘ You ought to make Beuno take you to the concert , ’ she said , thinking instantly that she was being cruelly tactful . |
| 28 | For a while she hovered in the doorway of a film company building and watched the steady but sparse traffic of shoppers , office messengers and business types who were using the pathways through the square 's railed park as a shortcut on their way to somewhere else … but then a gold-braided security guard stepped out and asked if he could help her , and it was clear that she was being told to move on . |
| 29 | He turned back to what he was doing , his long fingers working quickly and expertly at the job , and she had the faintest feeling that she was being dismissed . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I am that , ’ said Ianthe , with the uncomfortable feeling that she was being a little coy . |