Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them . |
| 2 | It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip . |
| 3 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 4 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 5 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 6 | Her gaze distant , as though she was looking back into the past , she continued , ‘ It would n't have been easy , staying here , but I dare say we would have managed . |
| 7 | She was looking out into the vault of air above the sea . |
| 8 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 9 | She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything . |
| 10 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 11 | She was pressed back against the seat as Fergus accelerated again . |
| 12 | She was speaking out after the deputy leader of Durham County Council , Bob Pendlebury , warned the dispute between the British Government and the European Community about the allocation of European grants could hit the county hard . |
| 13 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 14 | Then she was bounding out of the room , heading for the front door and rushing outside into the garden . |
| 15 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 16 | She forced Moran to dance and by the night 's end she was worn out by the single effort . |
| 17 | She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death . |
| 18 | They sang something noble and uplifting about Spiderglass and the atmosphere of pride swelled Jezrael 's emotions until she was swallowed up by the crowd 's euphoria . |
| 19 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 20 | She was calling out into the mist and he listened and did not move . |
| 21 | While the investigation was being carried out she was pushed up on the X-ray table with sufficient force to rip the intravenous infusion from an already bruised and swollen arm . |
| 22 | Then , before she realised it , they had stopped and she was pushed down to the ground next to Sung , her back to him . |
| 23 | David came back as she was getting out of the bath . |
| 24 | As she was getting out of the Metro he opened the front door . |
| 25 | I thought she was staying up at the villa to rest ? ’ |
| 26 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 27 | And she was laying up by the quay by where they 've got those |
| 28 | As for Mary Alice , she was flown back to the USA in June 1945 , some 11 months after her original crew . |
| 29 | I turned to share the wonder of it , but she was gazing up at the bloom of flame surging from the chimney 's mouth , and beyond where the evening-star glittered against the deepening blue sky . |
| 30 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |