Example sentences of "she was missing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a fall at thirty-five miles an hour , a night in Addenbrooke 's Hospital in Cambridge , and a broken collarbone to remind Kelly of the life she was missing as a professional jockey . |
| 2 | When she was missing on the set , she could always be found in the stars ' dressing-rooms . |
| 3 | He discovered she was missing on Christmas Eve when her sister went round to his house . |
| 4 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 5 | Since their arrival at ‘ La Felicità ’ she seemed to have forgotten all the social life she was missing in England and devoted her energies to the narcissistic process of going brown , measuring each day the contrast between her exposed wrist and the satisfying white band left beneath her watch-strap . |
| 6 | He felt it would be a good idea to show her what she was missing by taking that ‘ I 'll ask my parents ’ line . |
| 7 | Only Henrietta stood in a silent spasm , her entire body controlled by the Walkman which gripped her head and blared into her ears the sound of her own personal disco , reminding her , to her quiet fury , of the parties she was missing by coming on holiday with her parents . |
| 8 | And if she was missing from home why were n't her family moving heaven and earth to get her back ? |