Example sentences of "she were [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Thanks , " he said , drily , " oh , thanks ! " and began stripping off his jersey , as though she were already gone . |
| 2 | Feeling as if she were slowly dying inside , she listened to the words . |
| 3 | Even if she were finally cleared by Nick Morley 's investigation , she would remain guilty by association in the eyes of many racecourse insiders . |
| 4 | If the dream were to lose its power , if she were somehow to prevent it recurring , she must face again the memory of that afternoon nearly thirty years ago . |
| 5 | She were just telling me one of her friends that sh when she was in |
| 6 | Emmie felt frightened as if she were just going to jump into deep water . |
| 7 | She were just laid there , dead still , ’ said the home-help , relishing the sound of her own words . |
| 8 | So she were just having a crumpet , she 's but butter were all melting , I says I can just picture now running down your chin and |
| 9 | so she were just having a few crumpets |
| 10 | Oh its its its chronic , Tracy and Yvonne take hundreds of calls that are nowt to do with us , we 've what was it , we had complaints and discipline on on Friday afternoon , they wanted Superintendent J Smith and complaints and discipline on Friday afternoon , she were just gon na transfer it and Jim walked in so we just had a phone call for you he said |
| 11 | I says , she were just making arrangements to come to your house depending |
| 12 | ‘ Julia , ’ she said , as though she were just waking up . |
| 13 | And she all an and she were also telling me that erm Ben er two boys at school set about Ben the other night and beat him up ! |
| 14 | I do n't know you were in here and I were in there , in your sitting room , she were happy to make tea , she were right working |
| 15 | I know she were , she were brick shit she were , I said to Lyn I said I 'm bloody sure , I could have actually , she , she were nearly eating out of my arm , in them last few weeks , I 'll tell you , ooh the encouragement I got about the driving ooh I ca n't do it Lyn and when I comes in that day the first test I had she 'd made a great big fucking cake |
| 16 | Annie was behaving as if she were fully dressed . |
| 17 | They urged that if the loyalist political parties were to go into the convention without having in reserve the weapon of the general strike , they would be as naked and helpless as Aneurin Bevan , the post-war foreign secretary , had said Britain would be in international councils if she were unilaterally to discard her nuclear weapons . |
| 18 | He knew that he was oversensitive to the timbre of the human voice and hers , although not jarring or unpleasant , sounded a little forced as if she were deliberately speaking at an unnatural pitch . |
| 19 | I thought she were never gon na , I said to her for goodness sake , drink it ! |
| 20 | Do n't think she 'eard , for she were still cryin' out fit to deafen us , beggin' your pardon , m'lord . " |
| 21 | Had she really managed to look as though she were still holding together ? |
| 22 | She felt as if she were still surrounded by ominous shadows that no amount of sunlight would ever be able to penetrate . |
| 23 | It was as if she were suddenly bewitched , her words spat back at him through a mask of hatred . |
| 24 | She needed some freedom if she were ever going to settle , never mind blossom . |
| 25 | It was as if she were playfully tossing a brightly coloured ball to her lover . |
| 26 | Had Becky got there before him , he wondered , even if she were only living in digs ? |
| 27 | The droning in her head swelled and faded , swelled and faded repetitively , and a black halo edged her vision as if she were only allowed to behold her world circumscribed by mourning bands . |
| 28 | If she subsequently changes her mind and refuses to hand the child over , the courts may allow her to keep the child , and in practice she will be unlikely to return any money , even if she were legally required to do so . |