Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] she [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the afternoons she sat in the lounge , sometimes on her own , sometimes with the others ; but if the others were there she did not look at them , only at the television screen . |
| 2 | He was all she saw now . |
| 3 | That was all she took in at first , until Miss Belle cried in an excited voice , ‘ Well , Rene , take the coat off and let her feel it . |
| 4 | His smile was open and friendly , and suddenly it seemed preposterous to be standing here , on a Roman street corner , arguing with a man who had taken her from an existence that she 'd hated to one that was all she 'd ever dreamed of . |
| 5 | When at last it was over she lay back in a sleepy state , as a result of too much gin rather than weakness from the birthing , but she no longer felt like cursing James . |
| 6 | Now the crisis was over she felt utterly drained . |
| 7 | This was the first she had heard of it , for while Constance was away she had not felt able to accommodate the horrors revealed in the local rag and had read only the advertisements and the page called ‘ Eating Out ’ . |
| 8 | She , she was well she did n't think it was right . |
| 9 | It was then she remembered how he had once called her ‘ chicken ’ — the time he wanted to go somewhere else when she was under orders to go to the Moon . |
| 10 | That was how she ended back at square one , Ilford — her temporary location since April 's bomb blast at City regional office . |
| 11 | This was where she lived now . |
| 12 | That was when she understood why he looked so strange . |
| 13 | It was when she turned away from the window that she saw it . |
| 14 | The last the family ever saw of Inez was when she set off in her little red Mini Sunday morning with twenty quid in her purse and her passport . ’ |
| 15 | There was only one person she wanted to see and that was why she stared so searchingly into the young pretty face of the policewoman . |
| 16 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |
| 17 | What she could n't understand was why she felt so bad about it . |
| 18 | ‘ What I really wanted to know was why she ran out of the restaurant . |
| 19 | ‘ Isabel miscarried , which was why she became so mad for Benedict 's coming here . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I thought that was why she had n't phoned lately . |
| 21 | It would be the same for Rory — she 'd always known she 'd give her heart only once , and that was why she had n't played the love game with the same reckless abandon as so many of her contemporaries . |
| 22 | Perhaps that was why she acted so aggressively sometimes . |
| 23 | That was why she did not tell him about her pregnancy . |
| 24 | One part of her could not believe it was happening , and perhaps that was why she did not resist . |
| 25 | Which was why she did n't arrive on the outskirts of Slane until it was nearly dark . |
| 26 | Perhaps that was why she did n't want to lunch with him alone , away from their usual theatre crowd . |
| 27 | Candy was right , she realised bleakly — part of her did want to get back where she belonged , and there was nowhere she felt more at home than on a stage . |