Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Nicandra remembered about that race meeting was her pure delight at getting the longest possible odds on Lal 's runner and Lal buying a bottle of champagne after her race , the three of them were celebrating when she remembered her tryst with Robert . |
| 2 | They were losing and she knew they were going to lose and their last bloke was coming in and she was cheering them on . |
| 3 | He pointed to the straight-backed figure of a striking Chinese girl in an embroidered silk dress before whom the crowds were parting as she made her way slowly along the opposite pavement . |
| 4 | and the other chap that brought it round was very nice and we were talking and she said we worked at Panasonic and I said to him said yes , and I , I said oh I know somebody who works for Panasonic , and she said oh they probably know each other and she told me . |
| 5 | Someone brought her a coffee and she smiled vague thanks , noting with the same odd detachment that her hands were shaking as she clasped them around the mug . |
| 6 | They were doomed and she knew it . |
| 7 | She took the programme from his hand as if wanting to know what the song was , but her eyes were shut as she bent her head over it . |
| 8 | Marian leaned over the parapet ; the rain , which still streamed down , was forgotten as she watched him rapidly disappear . |
| 9 | Wickham had been proud of her , and was devastated when she said they should separate . |
| 10 | The woman had become suicidally depressed while pregnant with her previous two children and was devastated when she found herself accidentally pregnant again . |
| 11 | He had asked her what was happening and she told him as truthfully as possible . |
| 12 | All she had done this morning was suggest that she bathe his wound again before they started out , and he had refused with a complete lack of gratitude or even common courtesy . |
| 13 | Coffee was made and she called them , setting down the pot to complete her shadow picture . |
| 14 | She was grinning as she said it , but he did n't take that in and yelled at her about Women 's Lib claptrap . |
| 15 | The dining-room was crowded as she made her way to the open buffet table . |
| 16 | I said to him we made her a cup of coffee out of a teapot that was bought and she says she was talking about it . |
| 17 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 18 | Then the door was closed and she heard his footsteps coming down the path . |
| 19 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 20 | It was only a small cut , but it was bleeding and she put her hand over it to try and stop it . |
| 21 | It was noted that she kept herself almost isolated from her own colleagues . |
| 22 | I goes what ? , oh do n't worry , I was pretending not to hear what she was saying cos she misses it after a while , thought |
| 23 | In 1945 she was tried in a Chinese military court as a traitor , but was acquitted when she admitted her Japanese nationality and described how politically naive she was . |
| 24 | Light was fading as she wheeled her cycle around the side of their semi-detached house in Yonder , and propped it against the fence . |
| 25 | Then he was gone and she watched him striding away down the street . |
| 26 | I thought my friend , Irena , was joking when she dragged me , sloshing and sliding , towards the highway . |
| 27 | She was asked if she believed there was life after death . |
| 28 | But , much to her surprise , when the bread was baked and she took it out , she found that it had turned to a beautiful large loaf of the finest wheat flour . |
| 29 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 30 | This last question was apparently directed to her watch , which she was studying as she checked his pulse . |