Example sentences of "was [v-ing] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ilse wore no bra , and was twirling her panties around her head in no time . |
| 2 | Lydia was twirling her sherry glass and peering into it thoughtfully . |
| 3 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 4 | One afternoon she was maintaining her usual bedside vigil when , with the strains of Madam Butterfly playing in the background , he opened his eyes ‘ and was back ’ . |
| 5 | She 'd had enough of the pettiness of living with parents and the irrelevance of school was smothering her head . |
| 6 | Her head resting on her knees , she tried to contain the pain that was clenching her stomach muscles into a tight knot . |
| 7 | With her right eye , she saw the staircase before her , and the landing above , but with the left side of her sight , she was seeing her past replayed . |
| 8 | But it was seeing her waving — standing there and seeming to wave for ever as she backed away from me . |
| 9 | It was amazing really and even , she was eighty two when she died and even then she was knitting her own jumper suits . |
| 10 | It did n't help that , intellectually , I knew that she was reliving her own feelings about the way in which a second child — me — had wrecked her marriage . |
| 11 | If it had n't been for the triumphant glitter in his eyes she would have been lost ; as it was , he had pulled her zip down and was easing her dress from her shoulders by the time she 'd steeled herself to thrust hard against his shoulders with both hands and roll off the bed . |
| 12 | She had gone away to escape Lowell , but the cottage was part of both of them and it was demanding her presence . |
| 13 | For the lady — accompanied by red admirals , peacocks and common blues — was fluttering her wings in the new butterfly centre . |
| 14 | One milestone during this period was completing her ACII exams . |
| 15 | Joe said he liked the sound of that , and could she bring her Bovril up and drink it while having a chat with the young woman who was resting her sprained ankle on his bed ? |
| 16 | She was resting her head on his shoulder . |
| 17 | Chorus numbers were sung in full , and the Hoflin girl 's little solo in Act Two was performed from beginning to end , but Ingrid , who was singing Lisa — not such a heavy role , but she still had a couple of solos — was resting her voice again , and the rest just walked and hummed their roles . |
| 18 | He considered that Liza was behaving disgracefully , maintained that Harriet was encouraging her daughter in what he called ‘ selfish laziness ’ and that , sorry as he was about the death of John Carrow , surely Harriet had not long lost her own husband and it was up to Liza to give her more support . |
| 19 | By now Smallfry was using her other voice , the one that screeched shrilly and somehow managed to transform her from a beautiful movie-star into something savage and frightening . |
| 20 | Now she was using her pathetic pleading little voice , the one that still could affect him even though he knew she was performing , using all the tricks she used to keep her place as the most important member of her bloody drama group . |
| 21 | And before Sally-Anne could do anything about it the tall young man was tucking her arm in his , and walking her briskly along at such a pace that she was horrified to discover that Rose and her companion were gone , lost behind them as fresh crowds emerged from yet more emptying theatres and dance halls . |
| 22 | But even as Elizabeth Mowbray was finalising her plans for departure , Fate intervened . |
| 23 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 24 | Lady Grunte , who was cooking her lover 's lunch in Solihull at that very moment , had warned her husband off the Young Conservatives . |
| 25 | She was gathering her strength for the season of ice that must settle over Munding Rectory . |
| 26 | I would n't care if my Mandy was flashing her clout on the Old Kent Road if it meant having her back ! |
| 27 | Already , Jay 's Hollywood imagination was building her beds of rose-petals under crystal minarets . |
| 28 | She was nursing her fifth cup of awful coffee . |
| 29 | But Mrs McWhirter , cutting her losses , spent most of her time away , on the excuse that she was nursing her mother ; and the daughter , if she felt like coming home , preferred to regard home as where her mother was . |
| 30 | One night , as Tempy was helping her undress , she determined to tackle Stephen the next day . |