Example sentences of "she [be] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was anxious not to make a noise , but even though her feet fell softly into the leaves strewing the path the wood was so still and silent that she really felt as if she were thudding through the wood . |
| 2 | Seated in the tube train , she felt as if she were thundering through the earth in a time-capsule , guided by a power greater than herself , without real roots or destination . |
| 3 | And she were living in the parks . |
| 4 | You know , what she were wearing in the book ? |
| 5 | She felt as though she were suffocating in the heat , as though it were stopping her nostrils , sealing her mouth , and when she tried to breathe it forced itself down into her stomach and made her heave . |
| 6 | When he stopped his work for tea , the prying landlady being out at the shops , he would try to arrange to meet her , either in the house or at the British Museum if she were going near the West End that day . |
| 7 | He was the man she loved , and she felt as if she were floating above the ground . |
| 8 | She felt as though she were standing on the edge of a great chasm , with him on the other side urging her to jump across to him . |
| 9 | And then the silence of the hillside was rent by a further sound , a high buzzing at first like a gigantic and enraged wasp , and then a roar and a rending of the air , so that Molly felt as though she were standing on the bridge of a warship and some huge Exocet missile was being hurled in her direction . |
| 10 | And she felt , though comfortable in bed , as if she were standing with the rain sluicing all over her , streaming soothing over her breasts and down her thighs , warm and comforting and she hoped that he was not in difficulties on the road and that he was thinking about the rain . |
| 11 | Yes , yes When I have , have been entertaining Shirley and Terry , doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday , sometimes both to help Shirley when she 's getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts is lemon meringue pie |
| 12 | What about the guy that she 's seeing at the moment ? |
| 13 | Or rather she 's looking at the screen and that 's what happens to be on . |
| 14 | She 's looking through the dress rail . |
| 15 | If you 're the earner , and she 's looking after the children , it 's usually down to you to make regular payments for the children 's upkeep at least until they reach the age of seventeen — and longer if they 're still in education . |
| 16 | She 's swimming across the canal ! ’ |
| 17 | she 's laying on the bottom going , but I did n't move her cos it |
| 18 | Tracey is also being shown in advance how she can help herself when she 's recovering from the operation . |
| 19 | She 's yelling at the top of her voice . |
| 20 | She 's peeping round the corner of the stones , that step down there ! |
| 21 | she 's chuntering on to her granddad and she 's pointing to the brussel sprouts you know in the garden |
| 22 | she 's pointing at the jar of sweets . |
| 23 | she 's pointing at the jar of sweets look . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's hiding behind the curtains , ’ Jane Ashton said . |
| 25 | Can we use item one two nine on the minutes , first of all to say that some of us were at the H I V awareness training session last week , with Robin , we enjoyed it enormously , she 's hiding behind the thing . |
| 26 | She 's living in the past , poor dear . ’ |
| 27 | Emma did I tell you Joe , she 's working at the Body Shop . |
| 28 | She 's working in the Ministry of Information . ’ |
| 29 | got talking about Sun readers , there was this girl and she , she was stood on this podium and she , she 's talking to The Express and The Guardian and going like that and their taking photographs of her and then you sort of pan round , the camera pans round and you 've got The Star and the Sun going like that fucking its really funny , The Sun and The Star in it |
| 30 | She 's walking along the pavement ahead of me , holding onto this woman 's hand . |