Example sentences of "it [subord] she [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said Granny would n't need it where she was going . ’ |
| 2 | Getting up early was only worth it if she were going to see Ricky . |
| 3 | If it was your wife working for Abbey Life , would you like it if she was breaking appointments and out every night and all the rest of it . |
| 4 | She broke it because she was lost . |
| 5 | He had said it because she was dying ; and she knew it . |
| 6 | She was ignoring it because she was going to get paid . |
| 7 | Here , near the two fig trees , she would pick a little bunch , and Maman would sniff at it while she was eating her breakfast . |
| 8 | Melissa pictured Sybil with her head cocked , the way she held it when she was listening to someone , gazing with exaggerated , wide-eyed intensity . |
| 9 | ‘ Kay found it when she was clearing up . |
| 10 | Mummy dropped it when she was giving it to me . |
| 11 | One victim was glad of it when she was raped last year . |
| 12 | she got it when she was doing her A levels did n't she ? |
| 13 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 14 | The girl was undeniably beautiful , and clearly knew it for she was wearing no petticoat and a diaphanous dress of pale gold that did little to hide her body . |