Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] her [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
| 2 | The food 's all poisoned , and the newspapers are poisoned , and television 's poisoned , and Brian makes money telling people everything is n't — poisoned , ’ she concluded , sober enough to realize that she might not be expressing her thoughts with the clarity their profundity deserved . |
| 3 | In approximately one hour she would be getting her chops round the first succulent mouthful of Chicken Thallium . |
| 4 | ‘ Yet again Mia Farrow is forcing her children into the limelight for a dollar , ’ said Allen 's spokeswoman Leslee Dart . |
| 5 | Cahill is pinning her hopes on the King of Thailand , who regularly pardons long-term prisoners on his birthday . |
| 6 | She 's got a fag in her mouth , and she 's squinting her eyes against the smoke . |
| 7 | For the lady — accompanied by red admirals , peacocks and common blues — was fluttering her wings in the new butterfly centre . |
| 8 | Cecilia found she had clenched her fists and was driving her nails into the palms of her hands . |
| 9 | She had sat up and was pulling her fingers through the tangled forest . |
| 10 | Amanda Fergusson was directing her field-glasses at the Monastery of Saint James , and her face bore an expression of prim pleasure which shocked her companion . |
| 11 | She was doing her teeth in the bathroom . |
| 12 | Besides , living as she now was in a small house on top of two other people , and Dr Neil 's surgery boy , and seeing at close hand the wretched people who frequented his surgery , was giving her insights into the motivations and behaviour of the people around her because she had to consider them , whereas always before , in the past , other people had been compelled to consider her . |
| 13 | One spring-driven second later she 'd cut herself free , and two seconds after that she was showing her heels at the side door . |
| 14 | She found she was straining her ears for the musical clang of the town church bells . |
| 15 | Thus aiding his education because Stella was stretching her powers in the classics : Hedda Gabler , Lady Macbeth , St Joan . |