Example sentences of "she was [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was reaching for the glasses already . |
| 2 | She was looking at the maids carrying plates of singed meat to the young people and a servant who was bringing a tray full of raw steaks and sausages out from the house . |
| 3 | While she was looking at the pictures , Griselda , Anna 's mother 's cat , came in and jumped on to the cat woman 's lap . |
| 4 | Della was happy because she was looking round the shops for Jim 's present . |
| 5 | She was supported by the parents of Lance Bombardier Stephen Cummins as the gun carriage bearing his body moved through Porchester near Portsmouth . |
| 6 | She was thinking of the jellycrusts . |
| 7 | She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway . |
| 8 | At dawn , in the lull when even the snipers seem to sleep , Marina was dreaming of death when she was awoken by the screams of a 23-year-old woman , Ziba Islamovic . |
| 9 | It had worried him for a moment , he had n't been quite sure what she meant , but then he reckoned she was referring to the troubles . |
| 10 | She was stabbed around the genitals … and needed six stitches . |
| 11 | Inside , she was bleeding from the wounds inflicted by John Leinster , for she loved him as much as ever . |
| 12 | She was stood in the wings refilling the whisky decanter , picturing herself seated at a concert grand on the platform of the Philharmonic Hall — Meredith was in the front row gazing up at her with adoration — when three men walking one behind the other filed through the pass-door into the auditorium . |
| 13 | She also knew what was good for herself , so she kept for her own use the money that she was given for the children 's food . |
| 14 | She was taking in the boutiques on Fifth Avenue . |
| 15 | Pat Keen says she was invited by the members of the Yoga class she attends to teach them Medau while the teacher was away . |
| 16 | She was staying with the owners ; their shepherd , their smoother-of-the-way , their information booth . |
| 17 | Luke stood outside his own front door and read the note that Susan had left under the door-knocker , telling him that she was staying at the Palings Hotel . |
| 18 | She was tucking in the sheets at the wall side , and blowing the hair out of her eyes as she reached over . |
| 19 | In 1845 she was re-registered in the names of a ship-owner , a farmer , a master mariner and a sailmaker , and began a new life in Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 20 | Mrs Whitehouse said that she was writing to the heads of the BBC , the independent TV companies , and the British Board of Film Classification to demand that they personally institute cuts in screen violence . |
| 21 | Fairfax says she was killed by the Germans . |
| 22 | She was kneeling on the steps next to the old iron railings that ran along the front of the terrace , her arms supporting the naked body of her little boy , and she was trembling with the effort of holding him still . |
| 23 | It was so successful that she was beaten by the authorities for daring to walk where only the rich were permitted to stroll . |
| 24 | When he asked her why , she shyly confessed that she was pining for the snows of her native land . |
| 25 | Again , she was festooned with the contents of the treasure chest — the terrible red leather box . |
| 26 | On one occasion she was chased through the streets by a car full of excited young Arabs . |
| 27 | She had revealed that she was surrounded by the spirits of her four dead children , her parents , and a host of spirit youngsters through whom she operated when she was on This Side . |
| 28 | She was to work in the kitchens . |
| 29 | She was commissioned by the nuns of the local chapter of the Soeurs de Charité Dominicaines de la Présentation de la Sainte Vierge de Tours to paint a series of portraits of their founder , Mère Marie Poussepin . |
| 30 | And then she was going to the careers office . |