Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] she [was/were] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignoring the heavy irony of his voice , and deciding that she was just too weary to rise to the bait , Laura merely shrugged her shoulders . |
| 2 | Wondering if she was really rather stupid , she searched her mind and acknowledged the truth . |
| 3 | She would have given anything for a glimpse of the moon that had been shining when she was here before , but it was not there , and as the knocking gathered strength she realised she would have to go down . |
| 4 | Cary 's final work , an enlarged edition of The Resurrection ( November 1653 ) , was addressed to the saints meeting at Blackfriars and Christ Church , showing that she was now closely associated with the Fifth Monarchists . |
| 5 | He mentally called her a child to avoid admitting that she was very much a woman . |