Example sentences of "she [was/were] [v-ing] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was moving to the great gates and before Maggie could react the white-gowned figure had gone around the corner and out of sight . |
| 2 | She was reacting to the soft note in his voice , letting it wash over her and slow down the beat of her heart . |
| 3 | Melissa took a step forward and saw that she was clinging to the cast-iron pillar with both hands , her face half hidden among the foliage , her shoulders heaving . |
| 4 | In February 1940 she was writing to the Chief Rabbi to report on two of Solomon Schonfeld 's children who had turned up unannounced at Bloomsbury House . |
| 5 | The following morning , accompanied at Aunt Emily 's command by a trembling Lyddy who was sure she was going to the very mouth of Hades , Alexandra was driven out to Trelorne , dressed very much as she had been when she trespassed along the shore . |
| 6 | So she was going to the opposite direction actually , and I insisted that I do n't want to take her that long she would have to walk back again . |
| 7 | And now she was staring to the full capacity of her vision and her mind , reading him , sensing him , willing him — for God 's sake , for God 's sake — not to make further sport of her now . |
| 8 | In fact she was walking to the wrong bus-stop before she did recall it . |
| 9 | She wanted to look good for Dane because she was responding to the age-old instinct of women everywhere who felt the need to dress up and be beautiful for their men . |
| 10 | Eyeing his enormous frame with amused speculation , she suddenly grinned , not even aware that slowly , little by little , she was reverting to the old Hilary . |