Example sentences of "she was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was entertaining at Windsor on Saturday . ’ |
| 2 | She was looking at Slater through the black web of her hair ; now her head tilted , she turned to face him , put her small hand out . |
| 3 | I remember seeing one and one she was pushing in front in the in the |
| 4 | She was grinning at Harold in what could only be construed as a saucy way . |
| 5 | She was grinning from ear to ear , her eyes sparkling in excited anticipation , like a child watching magicians at a carnival . |
| 6 | She was thinking of houseboys in a saffron uniform she 'd design herself . |
| 7 | She nearly did not remember in time , because the similarity was such an unlikely one and she was hunting for pictures of hatred . |
| 8 | Dedications in an early work to the Puritan MPs , Francis Rous [ q.v. ] and Thomas Boon , may indicate a west-country origin , though she was living in London during her years as a writer . |
| 9 | She was born in the Rhondda Valley in 1939 and trained at the Birmingham College of Art and Crafts and at the Royal Academy Schools in 1965 , when she was living in Smethwick in the West Midlands , she won a Cinzano Art Foundation Award with her painting The Whale , which enables her to spend six months at the Academy of Fine Art in Rome . |
| 10 | Then , with great bravado , she attacked the pile of pine-needles , scooping them up between the giant clutch of her karaso and her own small hand , depositing them in another heap that she was building on top of the rope . |
| 11 | Because she was staying at home with her father Eva had the task of sorting out her mother 's possessions and sharing them with the family . |
| 12 | She was gazing at Pike in bewilderment . |
| 13 | When she finally left him to go upstairs her heart was overflowing , and she was beaming from ear to ear . |
| 14 | She was kneeling in front of a case of fine linen which Burun had brought for her from Kinsai . |
| 15 | Now she was kneeling in front of hundreds of people , weeping , making an adult decision , and so was Margaret , the timid one . |
| 16 | By the time they finally arrived in the deserted car park behind the arcade she was trembling from head to foot , racked by every emotion from fear to rage . |
| 17 | She was trembling from head to foot . |
| 18 | After all , she was returning to competition for the first time in five years . |
| 19 | She met him emerging from their tall block of apartments as she was returning from work on the Friday evening , having stopped to buy groceries on the way home , her mind flying ahead to Luke 's arrival and all that she planned to say to him now that she had made up her mind to end their affair . |
| 20 | Only her head was free to move by now and this she was tossing from side to side , her eyes rolling in panic , while her fear was further expressed in snorts and whimpers . |
| 21 | And she went from here about er well she said she was going at quarter past two . |
| 22 | She was going to Spain for a holiday she and her friend Tracy |
| 23 | She began to wonder if Matthew knew himself that she was coming , that she was going to work for him again . |
| 24 | She said she was going to Morocco with Adam Springer . |
| 25 | and while she 's up there , after she 's been there she was going to Creep to spe |
| 26 | Minutes afterwards , Fabia was still sitting stunned and hardly able to credit that she was going to Prague with Vendelin Gajdusek — that he was allowing her to use a spare room in his Prague hotel suite ! |
| 27 | The poor frightened girl packed her things and ran out , saying she was going to Reno for a divorce . |
| 28 | She just went and said I 've got this you know , check up , cos she knew she was going to Christies for her final check up and , they 've whizzed her in . |
| 29 | Soon after their first meeting , Barbara met her husband-to-be Ronnie Knight and announced that she was going to Madeira for her honeymoon . |
| 30 | Then there was the rime when she was going on holiday with a schoolfriend and the friend 's parents . |