Example sentences of "then she was [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 2 | Then she was bounding out of the room , heading for the front door and rushing outside into the garden . |
| 3 | Then she was jumping up and down , turned suddenly , threw her arms around me , eyes tightly closed , squeezing me against her . |
| 4 | Then she was flying off as if caught by the wind . |
| 5 | Then she was whisked off to lunch at the clubhouse . |
| 6 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 7 | And then she was going out making money on munitions . |
| 8 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 9 | Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling . |
| 10 | Then she was wrenched out of shadow into heavier shadow still , and realized it was almost too late already . |