Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sh she pays me fifty pounds , she rang me up she were away to a funeral |
| 2 | In fact , if she were there for two months , it would be unlikely that it would regard her as a resident . |
| 3 | Well she were there for two hours just trying to . |
| 4 | In Margaret Thatcher 's time — he wished that she were still at the helm — the party could always look forward to a damn good Leader 's speech on the last afternoon . |
| 5 | If she were still in Britain , it would be too late for her to say much in time for morning editions . |
| 6 | She tried to make Martha speak high English at home as if she were still in school , but the old woman often lapsed into patois herself . |
| 7 | " Dear Virginia , " he said quietly , as if she were still by his side . |
| 8 | Jinny went bright red and started towards the door so fast that Keith did not catch her up until she was outside on the path . |
| 9 | She was outside on the step , gazing at the winter afternoon . |
| 10 | As Maura watched the dust motes flying through the air in the rays of the June sun she wished that she was outside with the younger children . |
| 11 | She was outside for just a second . |
| 12 | She was outside in the garage |
| 13 | If you asked him she ought to be put away for she was plainly off her trolley . |
| 14 | She was upstairs at once to tell Mary what had happened , though I do n't suppose Mary paid her much heed . |
| 15 | ( She was probably at Bourges . ) |
| 16 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 17 | Every female role he made was for his wife , even though she was well past her prime ; Semenyaka 's youth was wasted stepping into others ' shoes . |
| 18 | And she was well past the point at which she might have stopped her headlong dive into that dizzying state . |
| 19 | I had to see Helen , After all , she was just over that hill which I could see from the top windows of the Grand . |
| 20 | It 's strange because when she was just with you she like it . |
| 21 | But , Debbie was just getting to the stage where she was just to same on the shift , erm , but yes , you need , like , th , the , you get certain people that , they just need the challenge , but then you can find yourself erm , getting into a situation where you 're giving them those extra things to do but you 're taking them away from somebody else , so they 're like just going into the background , you know . |
| 22 | She was just on her way to see Eleanor Thorne , ’ she ventured . |
| 23 | She was just on the point of leaving for London when her brother phoned to say that their mother was dying . |
| 24 | She was just inside the workshop doors with the fertiliser shed behind her , stacked to the roof with one-tonne sacks . |
| 25 | Sounds of movement behind me suggested she was just in time . |
| 26 | She was just in time to catch the overnight Red Eye for Heathrow . |
| 27 | I mean she was just in our department you see . |
| 28 | You see one , was close to the woodlands and in fact missed , she was just in the bottom of the field , and she 's sure to get the bird . |
| 29 | She was just in time to hear the street door slam , two floors below . |
| 30 | She was just in the middle of doing her hair when she heard a light tap at the door , followed by the sound of Candy 's voice . |