Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] she [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She liked Min and Jo and so she walked past the newsagents smiling , without noticing until she was almost at the next newsagents , which ran out of her newspaper by ten in the morning . |
| 2 | From the first Emilia occupied the position of a precariously privileged dependant , and complained of ‘ hard fortune ’ , her father dying when she was only eight , leaving a ‘ miserable ’ estate . |
| 3 | She consistently refused any offers of help with cooking and cleaning or transport to the hospital , maintaining that she was quite capable of managing for herself . |
| 4 | He stood for a moment longer , looking at her , unable to speak , seeing that she was so beautiful it was hurtful to him , thinking that in other circumstances he would be unmanned by such beauty , except that he was not unmanned , that was the very last thing … |
| 5 | He seemed incapable of accepting that she was very lonely . |
| 6 | Realising that she was too slight to lift him , Sarah was desperate . |
| 7 | ( Elizabeth Wilson recorded once realising that she was more than usually anxious about the question of what to wear when she was going to talk to a feminist group . ) |
| 8 | Fabia ended the call realising that she was quite looking forward to stretching her legs with Azor . |
| 9 | ‘ Some other time , ’ he said , clearly believing that she was only stalling . |
| 10 | Sridevi has been acting since she was just five years old . |
| 11 | Ignoring the heavy irony of his voice , and deciding that she was just too weary to rise to the bait , Laura merely shrugged her shoulders . |
| 12 | He had been fiercely possessive , racked by an agony of passionate wanting and yet somehow retaining sufficient control to assert his mastery , denying her fulfilment , waiting until she was almost weeping with desire , as if he needed to hear her husky throbbing pleas confirming his dominion in the relationship . |
| 13 | And , with his words ringing in her ears , she fled up the stairs , not relaxing until she was warmly cocooned in bed , with only her thoughts for company . |
| 14 | Feeling a little dizzy at being caught in the whirlwind of Faye 's enthusiasm , and wondering if she was just imagining a slightly brittle , overwrought quality to it this morning , Belinda listened to several more of Faye 's ideas for ‘ Getting Tom to notice you as a woman ’ . |
| 15 | Wondering if she was really rather stupid , she searched her mind and acknowledged the truth . |
| 16 | He finished his letter by saying that she was still close to him and that he wanked about her a lot . |
| 17 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 18 | I sent a letter to Mrs Thatcher saying if she was so hard up as only to pay us 40p , then she could have the money back . ’ |
| 19 | To an extent Laura found the superior knowledge of some of her employees unnerving but she was also prepared to learn from them , her own tastes changing subtly in the process . |
| 20 | She would have given anything for a glimpse of the moon that had been shining when she was here before , but it was not there , and as the knocking gathered strength she realised she would have to go down . |
| 21 | They talked about a project together with director Hal Ashby , who was trying to raise finance for a film based upon a remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( which Nicholson later made with Jessica Lange ) , but MGM pulled out because they did not think Michelle Phillips was a big enough name , not apparently appreciating that she was once a starring member of a world-famous singing quartet . |
| 22 | He comforted himself by assuming that she was just a mother-figure to the young man and there could n't possibly be any sex in it . |
| 23 | Then , knowing that she was safely tucked up in her own bed , she would go through the mental exercise as she had done under hypnosis and imagine herself entering that cupboard under the stairs . |
| 24 | The red mark on his cheek was fading and she was suddenly horrified by her uncontrolled outburst . |
| 25 | Cary 's final work , an enlarged edition of The Resurrection ( November 1653 ) , was addressed to the saints meeting at Blackfriars and Christ Church , showing that she was now closely associated with the Fifth Monarchists . |
| 26 | Her husband had left her the year before for some Tex-Mex bitch , claiming that she was too boring to live with . |
| 27 | She was hardly aware of the car pulling up outside the house , or of going up to her bedroom , claiming that she was too exhausted to relax on the beach and enjoy the remainder of the sunshine . |
| 28 | He mentally called her a child to avoid admitting that she was very much a woman . |
| 29 | She took up tennis after finding that she was simply in the way if she appeared on the film set . |
| 30 | Betty , ’ said Betty over Lydia 's shoulder , which was shaking because she was still laughing . |