Example sentences of "then she [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then she was looking into the compassion-filled face of Craig Grenfell . |
| 2 | Succeeding flights opened up to her view and then she was looking at the lobby . |
| 3 | Her two hands went to her face ; then she was flying to the door next to the factory and , hammering on it , called , ‘ Tommy ! |
| 4 | and then she was girning on the phone because |
| 5 | It took a couple of seconds to sink in , then she was struggling into the boiler suit , using language , under her breath , which would have made treble word scores in Rude Scrabble . |
| 6 | And then she was going to the careers office . |
| 7 | Then she was running towards the village , ignoring the small scutterings on the bank beside the road , her old sandals almost soundless on the tarmac . |
| 8 | He did n't understand but he heard the word ‘ spider ’ and laughed , and she laughed too , until she saw how the light slid over his cheekbones and dropped luminous on his hair like Ember 's , then she was crying into the warmth of his shoulder and he took her through a linden-scented night to a place where her tangled feelings speared through tawdry lust into oblivion where she was n't alone . |
| 9 | And then the Larch moved back , and Fenella clung to its poor torn branches and the sticky evil effluence melted back , and there was a horrid oozing clutching feeling , and then she was pulled across the floor , and she was free . |
| 10 | Then she was racing up the stairs . |
| 11 | Then she was talking to the woman . |
| 12 | Then she was standing at the church gates and looking down Lyra Street ; looking , but not understanding . |