Example sentences of "[subord] she [be] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To allow them to flourish could lead only to pain — even greater pain than she was feeling in this moment , though she could hardly imagine anything could be greater . |
| 2 | She 'd had no idea what the house looked like , until she was going through that wooden gate when , holding Millie by the hand , she espied it in the distance . |
| 3 | If she 's playing with some children on the other side of the room and suddenly looks up to find you 're not there , she wails . |
| 4 | If she 's crying for some other reason like because we 've been quarrelling and she wants to make up but does n't know how to I just put my arms round her and cuddle her and let her cry it out . |
| 5 | The recent single , Love You All My Lifetime , should have been a bigger hit and shows that Chaka can still sound as if she 's bursting with all the joys of spring . |
| 6 | ‘ It is impossible that she can give her full concentration to this case if she is sitting under that sort of threat , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Fand looked stranger than ever , her face fixed and old as if she were withering in this icy fire . |
| 8 | Hugh began , but Molly was already up and almost running down the stone steps as if she were hurrying towards some long-planned assignation . |
| 9 | Groaning as if in physical pain , she rocked herself back and forth in her chair — her teeth bared as if she was grimacing at some diabolical joke . |
| 10 | It was almost as if she was suffering from some dreadful disease that could only be cured by his physical removal . |
| 11 | well she said she , she wants to come and she 'd like to come , but it 'll be end of June , because she 's going to some er Methodist day out somewhere , I do n't |
| 12 | She agreed to one glass of the port , not because she was feeling at all drunk but because she knew that she ought to be . |
| 13 | And , while she was chewing on that , suddenly some fierce Czech expletive rent the air , then , ‘ Hell , did you have me fooled ! ’ he raged , and when she had been certain that his fury was wholly on account of her pretending to be a journalist when she was not , he proceeded to throw her thinking totally out of gear when , his face whiter than ever , ‘ You wanted that interview so badly you were even ready to commit adultery to get — ’ |
| 14 | Such cheating may take the form of coaching or practice , but it may also take the subtle form of the chemistry teacher who asked the GCE student , ‘ are you sure that is what you want ? ’ when she was asking for some particular potion to complete an experiment in a practical examination , or the American teacher on the same 1987 visit who pointed to a particular answer in a workbook and asked the student to ‘ check that out ’ . |
| 15 | When she was talking like that , I 'd say , " Mum what are you talking about ? " and she 'd say , " Oh never mind , you wo n't understand . " |
| 16 | Nelson was going to have to fumble through on his own — just as she was fumbling through each day , holding her breath hoping to see him , talk to Matthew … trying to understand this hunger inside her . |