Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] she [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Annie 's plans for a restful break were shattered when she discovered the holiday hideaway has a ghost . |
| 2 | Stella 's hands were trembling as she held the torch . |
| 3 | Mary 's heart was beating fast and her hands were shaking as she pushed the leaves away and found the key-hole . |
| 4 | The mirror was broken and she hated the casual glimpses she got of her face as she cleaned her teeth or when she passed the hall-stand . |
| 5 | It was reported that she disturbed the prowler when she arrived back unexpectedly at her family 's Melbourne home . |
| 6 | Miss Stephanie Farrimond , prosecuting , said the woman was attacked after she left the Savoy nightclub , Clacton , on August 1 last year . |
| 7 | The woman was attacked as she left the Yarm Road branch of Barclay 's Bank at 11am , yesterday . |
| 8 | The 20 year old student was attacked as she used the women 's toilets near the Martyr 's Memorial in the centre of Oxford . |
| 9 | Kelly 's head was swimming as she left the racecourse . |
| 10 | Her heart was racing before she pulled the door open . |
| 11 | Idiotically , her heart was racing when she reached the drawing-room . |
| 12 | Maybelle , face ashen , was transfixed as she watched the Tunstalls leave . |
| 13 | Last year he had thought Rose was exaggerating when she described the experience . |
| 14 | The mare 's breath was roaring as she reached the crest . |
| 15 | Then he was gone and she held the receiver for a moment feeling unexpectedly bereft . |
| 16 | Daisy , 57 , of Hindon , near Salisbury , Wilts , was hit as she walked the dog to a nearby village . |
| 17 | Not even her grandmother 's Co-op book , which Moira was carrying when she left the house to go to the shop , was uncovered . |
| 18 | Julie 's hand was shaking as she pushed the key into the ignition but she sucked in a deep breath and started the car , checking her rear-view mirror both for approaching traffic and , more particularly , for that Granada . |
| 19 | Twenty-four hours later he admonished Babs for over-stressing the little-girl aspect of Cleopatra , pointing out that childishness of character was not a question of years and that she was mistaken if she supposed the difference between folly and wisdom had anything to do with either age or youth . |
| 20 | It was snowing when she reached the side-road marked on the map , and she heaved a sigh of relief when she spotted the dark shape of a cottage . |
| 21 | Detectives think Sian was killed because she recognised the man — and were last night sifting through hundreds of betting slips for clues . |
| 22 | Amelia Earhart — American heroic pioneer in aviation whose plane was lost as she attempted the circumnavigation of the earth . |
| 23 | The phone was ringing as she entered the room . |
| 24 | Ann-Marie , 16 , who was drunk when she took the wheel after a night out at a pub , had been inseparable from her cousin . |
| 25 | Cousin Jane was smiling when she opened the door . |
| 26 | It was suggested that she hated the wet and dreary Balmoral holidays , that she suffered from anorexia , that she had quarrelled with a number of the Prince 's household and staff , that she was only interested in clothes , that she was a lover of discotheques and neglected her husband . |