Example sentences of "he be [v-ing] she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is seeing her off the premises at this minute . ’ |
| 2 | and for a treat he 's taking her to the , er nostalgic weekend at |
| 3 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 4 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
| 5 | He was watching her with a glint of amusement in those remarkable eyes . |
| 6 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 7 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |
| 8 | He was watching her with a strange look on his face , half amusement , half something else , and she felt herself bristle . |
| 9 | That curious flicker was in his eyes again ; he was watching her with an intensity that was unnerving . |
| 10 | He was watching her like a cat with a mouse . |
| 11 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 12 | He was swinging her into the sailboat , then , with a broad grin , leaping in beside her . |
| 13 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 14 | And then he was dragging her by the hands , racing across the lawn , nearly pulling her arm from its socket , crashing through the kitchen door , crying aloud so that it sounded like a whoop of triumph . |
| 15 | He was draining her from every angle , mentally , physically and … and sexually . |
| 16 | She understood that he was imagining her in a swimsuit with sleek hair at the local pool or in a short , white dress on a tennis court . |
| 17 | He was telling her about a holiday in Greece instead . |
| 18 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 19 | It was then she realised that he was lambasting her with the tennis racquet . |
| 20 | As the abrasive words poured into her ears , he was moving her against an ornamental lacquerwork cabinet of hip height and bending her backwards , a hand dealing with the intricacies of her bustier with a sure skill that bore witness to a wealth of experience with even the most esoteric of feminine garments . |
| 21 | And then , almost at once , his iron control seemed to snap , and he was kissing her with a frenzied , pent-up , impatient longing that was totally beyond anything she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 22 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |
| 23 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 24 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 25 | He was leading her to the edge of the dance-floor . |
| 26 | On long strides he was leading her towards the door , oblivious to her inner anguish . |
| 27 | Then he was leading her across the terrace and through the open doors of the villa , across the drawing-room and out into the hall . |
| 28 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 29 | Now he was turning her into a stammering schoolgirl ! |
| 30 | He was playing her like an angler with a fish and knew that she would soon be netted . |