Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] she [was/were] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " When she did n't come home on Friday night , " she said , " her parents thought she was staying with her boyfriend and the boyfriend thought she was at home with her parents . " |
| 2 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 3 | Both girls thought she was joking at first but when she recounted word for word the interview she had had with Moran they exploded into wild laughter . |
| 4 | It took me a couple of seconds to realize she was laughing . |
| 5 | He rang police to say she was missing — and was told she had been killed under the wheels of a tractor . |