Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He wo n't be er , but she was so she said you 're gon na chop the tree down , that tree whe , that he bumped into !
2 ‘ Well , that was all she gave me .
3 When it was over she raised her head and breathed in deeply .
4 And she 's , that was tonight she said she 's hoping to be home Thursday .
5 But now that she was here she supposed she 'd better do her best , although obviously it was not a matter to be rushed .
6 It had crossed her mind that he was using her , but was n't she using him ?
7 was n't she let it
8 Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise .
9 It was then she knew she could n't stay there , not with him .
10 It was then she recognized it was fear that had set her limbs a-tremble and turned her blood to ice .
11 That was how she met my father in the early years of the war .
12 All Maggie Byrne talked about was how she hoped you would accept her .
13 They had laughed and talked as friends , and that was how she saw him .
14 And that was how she saw his face so clearly .
15 That was how she saw it and it added to her perturbation just as the sight of Tom leading hay over under the far wood gave her a quite unnecessary pang for she had never really loved him .
16 That was how she knew they had arrived .
17 That was how she put it .
18 Leith took a deep and controlling breath , then took the fight — for that was how she regarded it — into his camp .
19 And that was how she liked it .
20 Well , if that was how she wanted it
21 Buttoned up and locked in was how she described him to herself .
22 That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage .
23 That was how she lost her optic implant , how her platelocks got knocked out of shape .
24 That was how she found her … that night at Alassio . ’
25 It was there she told me about this sister and showed me her hand .
26 If Nigel was there she gave them blankets and told them to use the sofa .
27 This was where she bade him a pleasant goodnight , Fabia knew , and she fully intended to do just that .
28 But Eva ignored all such eyes : this was where she reckoned she could do something .
29 It was when she told him where she was working that he was taken aback .
30 The most beautiful moment was when she asked me for my recipe for Pavlova cake .
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