Example sentences of "she was [verb] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had returned to the Operations Room , where Bernice was surprised to hear Ace 's voice — as far as anyone knew she was recovering with the rest of her party on Moloch — and even more surprised to hear it raised in anger and directed at — of all people — the Doctor . |
| 2 | This time she was rewarded with the sound of a familiar if dejected voice the other end . |
| 3 | In Thailand she was struck with the contrast between the acrobatic and boisterous dances for men , and the women 's gentle , elegant movement in which all the activity is in the hands and arms , the feet never leaving the ground . |
| 4 | ‘ Leave them alone , ’ he said , for now she was fiddling with the crochet mats of green wool , flipping them over like pancakes . |
| 5 | Fidelma should have left the room some five minutes before , but she was fiddling with the silver milk jug and sugar basin so that she did n't miss anything . |
| 6 | She was staying with the tech was n't she ? |
| 7 | That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern . |
| 8 | Instantly , she was filled with the need to protect herself from the hopelessly vulnerable way that made her feel . |
| 9 | And she was toying with the idea whether to go and do her midwifery cos that 's what she wanted to do |
| 10 | She was toying with the sand , scooping it up and letting it trail through her fingers , and she did n't see the expression in his eyes when he next spoke . |
| 11 | She was presented with the award by Yorkshire 's Deputy County Commissioner for Venture Scouts , Roger Williams , during a ceremony at Huddersfield Town Hall . |
| 12 | He was understandably apprehensive when Diana made her first speech partly in Welsh at Cardiff City Hall when she was presented with the Freedom of the City . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lucy grabbed for it ; she was choking with the grip on her throat . |
| 15 | She had recently found that she was waking with the dawn — or even slightly earlier — and she used the opportunity either to keep up with her journal or to rough out a column for J. D. O'Connor who grew increasingly pleased with her work . |
| 16 | She was talking with the ease of total emotional exhaustion . |
| 17 | She was identified with the planet Venus and thought to be the daughter of the sky god , for another of her epithets is Mistress of the Sky . |
| 18 | She was shaking with the cold , but the fire in the den had been irritating and overbearing . |
| 19 | It was the end of the decade , and she was labelled with the name of the criminal class . |
| 20 | Speaking as a delegate from the Stroud labour party , she told the conference of her struggle after she was linked with the theft of royal letters in the Today newspaper over three years ago |
| 21 | I 'm sure somebody told me that she was working with the trainee at er |