Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] her [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie was stabbing her finger at the different plates on the table , and her aunt wagged her head and pursed her lips before she said , flatly , ‘ I 'm courting one of the airmen ; he comes to Donald 's farm . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was combing her hair at the mirror . |
| 4 | Linda herself was doing her homework at the table in the corner . |
| 5 | and she was having her drink at the same time |
| 6 | One spring-driven second later she 'd cut herself free , and two seconds after that she was showing her heels at the side door . |
| 7 | As a cop arrived , his cyclops helmet protruding above the heads of the crowd , the woman was lowering her bucket at the end of a rope , shouting to a gaggle of little painted boys for a refill . |