Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Thanks , " he said , drily , " oh , thanks ! " and began stripping off his jersey , as though she were already gone . |
| 2 | Even if she were finally cleared by Nick Morley 's investigation , she would remain guilty by association in the eyes of many racecourse insiders . |
| 3 | Martha turned and shook off her idleness , realising that the old woman would continue enumerating chores if she were not distracted . |
| 4 | She were just laid there , dead still , ’ said the home-help , relishing the sound of her own words . |
| 5 | Only thing she were n't chuffed about is she could n't cash cheque , it had to go all through bank and everything . |
| 6 | Cruel shook up , she is now , like as you do n't need to be no doctor to see , but she were n't shook up when she got a job to do ! ’ |
| 7 | Annie was behaving as if she were fully dressed . |
| 8 | She felt as if she were still surrounded by ominous shadows that no amount of sunlight would ever be able to penetrate . |
| 9 | It was as if she were suddenly bewitched , her words spat back at him through a mask of hatred . |
| 10 | The droning in her head swelled and faded , swelled and faded repetitively , and a black halo edged her vision as if she were only allowed to behold her world circumscribed by mourning bands . |
| 11 | If she subsequently changes her mind and refuses to hand the child over , the courts may allow her to keep the child , and in practice she will be unlikely to return any money , even if she were legally required to do so . |
| 12 | The author realised that she was wrongfully dismissed at a time when the company needed her services . |
| 13 | ‘ She was plainly affected by the taking of the drugs . |
| 14 | She was adequately provided for — only it was n't enough , and because she was angry , felt slighted perhaps , she went off to England to find her real family — Kent ! ’ he added disgustedly . |
| 15 | She was lavishly dressed in costumes by Yves St Laurent of Paris and Valentino of Rome , and the film was shot in the beautiful settings of Cannes and the French Riviera , but Crawford soon realized that his co-star was no actress . |
| 16 | She was presumably trained in her father 's workshop , and she came to England into royal service in about 1545 . |
| 17 | A particularly gruesome tale is appended to the embalming of Queen Katherine de Valois , wife of Henry V. Katherine died at Bermondsey Abbey ( by whose monks she was presumably embalmed ) on 3 January 1438 and eventually buried on 8 or 9 February 1438 in front of the high altar of the new Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey — indeed hers was the first royal body to be buried there . |
| 18 | In 1891 she was briefly engaged to Charles Morrison , a Scottish missionary teacher at Duke Town eighteen years her junior , but when the Mission Board refused to allow him to join her in Okoyong , the relationship was broken off . |
| 19 | As a result of a visit to Ruthenia in 1939 on behalf of the Evening Standard during which she was briefly imprisoned , she met and married the then notorious journalist Claud Cockburn who was at that time producing his one-man newsletter The Week . |
| 20 | She was closely followed by a club instructor who had intended to sound the crash alarm using the button in the control room . |
| 21 | This programme however is far more attractive as it features the great Marguerite Long in music by the three 20th Century French composers with whom she was closely associated . |
| 22 | Hence , it is likely that she was openly acknowledged as his consort , and was present when he was chosen as king in 1016 . |
| 23 | She was a startling sight in that setting , for she was immaculately dressed in riding clothes , her breeches almost white , boots black and so highly polished I could see the flood waters reflected in them . |
| 24 | THE woman juror whose looks prompted a man to wolf-whistle at her in court yesterday said she was secretly flattered and took it as a compliment . |
| 25 | When she was politely asked about her father 's health her reply startled the assembled company . |
| 26 | In the afternoon , she was politely told to go out until tea-time . |
| 27 | She soon became absorbed , oblivious to the passage of time , and was startled when she was politely informed that the doors would shortly be closed for the midday break . |
| 28 | Somehow , Rachel went into the office on Monday morning , smiling as she was politely congratulated by the staff , who admired her ring . |
| 29 | I think she was probably activated by a divine obstinacy . |
| 30 | ‘ She was probably born like that . ’ |