Example sentences of "her [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She guessed it would be Nicky Kai , eager to hear her singing the praises of her beloved island once more , and she might be willing to stay and share the light supper she had been planning for herself as it was Sunday , the one evening of the week on which Florian might occasionally make a concession to the fact of his breakfast show slot and retire soon after dark . |
| 2 | ‘ I said I would think about it , ’ Ven cut in , but she was pleased to see that he was relaxed still , and in no way hostile at her bringing the subject up again . |
| 3 | However , William Matteuzzi 's Almaviva is so weak that it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to picture her preferring the young Count to the lecherous old Dr Bartolo ; and although the late Giuseppe Patane conducts the score with obvious affection , he has little flare for dramatic pacing . |
| 4 | Soeur Dosithée , perhaps breaking her vow of poverty , kept all the letters that her sister sent her charting the progress of her little niece . |
| 5 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 6 | He 'd seen her like this before , when she had her nose in those poetry books , and once when he 'd sneaked up the stairs and caught her using the telephone . |
| 7 | With her driving the I never thought of that . |
| 8 | Marrying again and starting a family had found her coping with a highly-gifted child , and this had led to her founding the National Association for Parents of Gifted Children in order to help families who find themselves thrown by their brilliant off-spring and to encourage local authorities to make provision for them . |
| 9 | Somehow the protestant part of me could not find it right to speak of her place in God 's order of salvation because I was afraid of her obscuring the central place of Jesus Christ in his Church . |
| 10 | Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list . |
| 11 | She seemed able to find interest in any topic , a gift which led to her becoming the first regular columnist for the Manchester Guardian 's women 's page . |
| 12 | In October , 1991 , The Rt Hon Angela Rumbold , CBE , MP , who at that time chaired the Government 's ministerial group on women 's issues , presented Georgina Wicks ( 14 ) of La Saint Union Convent School , London , with a certificate to commemorate her becoming the 100,000th girl to gain experience of technology on a WISE vehicle since the beginning of the WISE campaign . |
| 13 | She was born in the Rhondda Valley in 1939 and trained at the Birmingham College of Art and Crafts and at the Royal Academy Schools in 1965 , when she was living in Smethwick in the West Midlands , she won a Cinzano Art Foundation Award with her painting The Whale , which enables her to spend six months at the Academy of Fine Art in Rome . |
| 14 | And then he saw her pass by outside the window , and heard her climbing the steps toward the front door . |
| 15 | ‘ Boom , Boom , ’ says the boogieman , as he coolly shoots his lady down , rams her into his car , steers off to his house , gets a bang out of watching her walking the floor , and then settles down for a bit of baby talk . |
| 16 | And fortunately , it was , it was one of the councillors , well they phoned that was meant to pick her up , and found her walking the street ! |
| 17 | Desmond Fairchild , hearing her shouting the minutes in the passage , had come out of the lavatory still holding himself . |
| 18 | She said carrying the water up from the well had taken a great deal of time which , when I saw her filling the bucket , I was not surprised since she lowered the rope slow enough to make me fall asleep watching . |
| 19 | Her concern with poverty , especially as it affected children , led to her writing The London Child ( 1927 ) and The Child Grows Up ( 1929 ) , studies of working-class life . |
| 20 | Zurachina was in the next room ; Burun could hear her ordering the slaves to unpack the boxes of bed linen . |
| 21 | By the time Wardle Wood came in sight Virginia was tired and was wondering whether there was anything she could do that would save her pushing the bike all the long way home . |
| 22 | After her own parents died and she was left destitute , Elizabeth had found her wandering the streets . |
| 23 | Marianne Farningham became a member of the Northampton School Board in the mid-1880s , but she declined to canvass or address meetings , preferring to send a printed letter round to electors , though this ladylike course of action did not prevent her heading the poll . |
| 24 | By what I can gather they must have lived in Durham for a time , 'cos when she was saying her prayers she brought in a Mrs Melburn , a parson 's wife , who was kind to them after the father died or whatever , an' from what I made out of her jabbering the woman and the mother have written to each other . |
| 25 | He sat down opposite her sipping the brandy . |
| 26 | Were you hoping to catch her stealing the silver ? ’ |
| 27 | Well I have n't seen her feeding the ducks for about three or four months . |
| 28 | It was what Nigel wanted in theory , but in practice he could n't bear the whole thing ending acrimoniously , especially with her getting the last word . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's no doubt about her getting the distance , but in this top grade it 's essential she sets off in front . ‘ |
| 30 | He knew Sarah was at home , since he could see her watering the plants in her small garden . |