Example sentences of "she was [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well I think , she said she was going down the shops , so I said ah can you just wait just a sec , I 'll go and get my wallet and I 'll be down she said not to worry she 'd got money anyway whe when I got there she bumped to Maggi and then you 'd gone and then |
| 32 | She was still shivering and her head felt muzzy , but now she was lying down the boat did n't seem to be doing quite so much heaving and rolling . |
| 33 | In no time at all , she was hurrying down the hallway towards the nursery , where she swept in to announce , ‘ It 's such a glorious day , Mr Turnbull , I think we 'll cut short Richard 's lessons and I 'll take him out in the sunshine . ’ |
| 34 | She was bending over a basket of freshly picked marrow flowers , arranging them to her satisfaction . |
| 35 | Oblivious to her injuries , Thomas Duke would have carried his daughter back to their cottage in his arms , though it is conceivable that she was carried on an old door or something . |
| 36 | She was fighting back the tears , and her throat hurt . |
| 37 | She was walking up the Mound to do the lunch shift at the Right and Wrong . |
| 38 | I then asked her to imagine that she was walking along a familiar street in her own neighbourhood . |
| 39 | A friend of mine recalls an occasion in her childhood , as she was walking along an ancient path , when she heard the sound of thunder from the ground : none of the friends she was with heard anything . |
| 40 | Once , it had seemed that the candle of her life would burn only till Christmas , and that it was towards that single point that she was spinning out the last hours of her life . |
| 41 | She was put on an intravenous drip in a treatment room and left alone with Allitt . |
| 42 | She was sweeping out the yard while Bella cooked the lunch and sang to the baby . |
| 43 | She could not bind herself personally , with the result that she could not be made a bankrupt , unless she was carrying on a trade . |
| 44 | She rested the child she was carrying on the parapet , the child being asleep , and held it with one hand as she used the other to search at her breast purse for her money . |
| 45 | She was flown immediately by helicopter to Hillsborough Castle in County Down where she was carrying out the only engagements of the visit , a lunch party and a garden party for 1,200 people on a day Ulster was swept by torrential rain . |
| 46 | Maybe she was warming up the showers . |
| 47 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |
| 48 | Caro dreamed she was driving along a straight empty road . |
| 49 | She was driving along a motorway . |
| 50 | In 1934 , on the recommendation of Professor Bell , Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Cape Town , her school was given a studio in the College of Music and she was taken on the staff of the Faculty of Music . |
| 51 | Mrs Richards pretended to sleep , but Shelley could tell by the tightly closed eyes and the hard lines at the corners of her mouth that she was shutting out the world because it was hurting again . |
| 52 | She was pulling off the beautiful antique ring . |
| 53 | She was coming up the central passage between the rows of tables . |
| 54 | The sound indicated that she was coming down the mast . |
| 55 | She was beating up the |