Example sentences of "she was [verb] [adv prt] an " in BNC.

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1 She was wandering down an arcade when she saw the new Tissot boutique .
2 I wondered if she was hunting up an appetite but I did n't ask , just like I did n't ask about Werewolf 's trip to Dublin .
3 She was holding up an oil-lamp and peering out .
4 Oblivious to her injuries , Thomas Duke would have carried his daughter back to their cottage in his arms , though it is conceivable that she was carried on an old door or something .
5 A friend of mine recalls an occasion in her childhood , as she was walking along an ancient path , when she heard the sound of thunder from the ground : none of the friends she was with heard anything .
6 She was put on an intravenous drip in a treatment room and left alone with Allitt .
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