Example sentences of "she was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't fink she was bein' 'ard pressed . ’ |
| 2 | She was were n't she ? |
| 3 | Bill , the first footman , who had nothing to tell him , said his foot itched to kick him up the b.t.m. , while Mary said she felt she was being taken by one of those continental gigolos to the Strand Corner House , as a preliminary to being seduced . |
| 4 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |
| 5 | The landlady repeated that she was being very lenient with him but generosity on her part was not without limits , my girl . |
| 6 | At any other time Phoebe would have thought she was being mocked and taken offence . |
| 7 | She was being treated at home at that time . |
| 8 | But now she was being drawn , as it were unwillingly , into his world which although intellectual — abstract , even — was , she was discovering , informed by deep , profound passion . |
| 9 | And there , after her warming-up exercises , she leaped like a gazelle , undisturbed by the fact that she was being filmed on video by two pupils and barely noticing that during the session a small group of people tiptoed on to the gallery , and she did her last jump to applause . |
| 10 | She was sounding strained , and as always when she was over-extended she was being unnecessarily bossy . |
| 11 | She describes how a porpoise appeared and guided her so that she was being carried with the tide , and then helped her to a section of shallow water . |
| 12 | When she was being important and rushing around she would push them up into her hair . |
| 13 | Jinny knew that she was being mean . |
| 14 | She appeared to be looking in two directions at once and Dot could n't tell whether or not she was being stared at . |
| 15 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 16 | The aunt had told Grandma ( or Jane , as they always called her ) that she was being ‘ used ’ . |
| 17 | English law has tended to confine narrowly the situations in which a mistake is held to negative the consent apparently given by the woman : only where the victim was made to believe that the man was her husband , or that the act to which she was being asked to consent was not sexual intercourse , is the mistake sufficiently fundamental to convert the apparently consensual sex into rape . |
| 18 | ‘ She was being polite . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Then she was being thrown violently up and backwards , her spine slamming against the far wall . |
| 20 | She was being looked after at home by her children and there was a great deal of anxiety being expressed by all the carers involved as to what would happen to the children . |
| 21 | Fortunately , she was a greedy horse , so when a helper held a bucket of food under her nose for her to eat while she was being mounted , she was easily distracted . |
| 22 | The idea that she was being punished began to obsess her and she could think of nothing else the whole winter . |
| 23 | To show her the evil of her ways , the evil for which she was being punished . |
| 24 | Wilson saw she was being watched , closely studied , and dropped her eyes to concentrate on the jacket she was making for Pen . |
| 25 | Wilson knew she was being patronised if not mocked outright , but no trace of expression crossed her face and it gave her satisfaction that she knew it did not . |
| 26 | Elisabeth calculated correctly that a glance in Mitzi 's direction would satisfy the Austrian that she was being listened to . |
| 27 | Then she was being hoisted in the air . |
| 28 | ‘ She acted in a very calm manner — remarkably so considering the trauma she was being put through . |
| 29 | Divorcee Mrs Robinson was arrested in April , 1989 , and while awaiting trial , she said she had only the vaguest idea of what she was being accused . |
| 30 | Only when the head of accounting ( ’ an ‘ acceptable ’ woman 's role ’ ) took her to one side and showed her the company 's payroll did she realise that while she was bringing in the most revenue , she was being paid the smallest salary . |