Example sentences of "she was [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was sinking down into a dream , aware only of the warmth of his body wrapped intimately against her own . |
| 2 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 3 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 4 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 5 | Her gaze distant , as though she was looking back into the past , she continued , ‘ It would n't have been easy , staying here , but I dare say we would have managed . |
| 6 | She was looking out into the vault of air above the sea . |
| 7 | She was looking out of a window towards a view of the park . |
| 8 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 9 | She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything . |
| 10 | She was speaking out after the deputy leader of Durham County Council , Bob Pendlebury , warned the dispute between the British Government and the European Community about the allocation of European grants could hit the county hard . |
| 11 | Then she was bounding out of the room , heading for the front door and rushing outside into the garden . |
| 12 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 13 | She was hanging around with a bunch of amateurs in Hell . |
| 14 | She was calling out into the mist and he listened and did not move . |
| 15 | David came back as she was getting out of the bath . |
| 16 | As she was getting out of the Metro he opened the front door . |
| 17 | Cathy when I was in hospital in er a physiotherapy bit , where they , where they brought children in , erm there was this little girl and like she was riding round on a little bike , you know , so she 's quite , quite old and she had er , in , in brace , but her legs were like out at the side and her feet were pointing down and they 're pointing up , I 'm just a bit confused . |
| 18 | I thought she was staying up at the villa to rest ? ’ |
| 19 | And she was laying up by the quay by where they 've got those |
| 20 | I turned to share the wonder of it , but she was gazing up at the bloom of flame surging from the chimney 's mouth , and beyond where the evening-star glittered against the deepening blue sky . |
| 21 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 22 | Three days before the opening night of the Season , Gesner — rather embarrassingly — stopped the rehearsal when he saw she was slipping out of the theatre to go home . |
| 23 | As I understood it she was flying back to the States tomorrow . ’ |
| 24 | When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance . |
| 25 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 26 | She was holding on by a thread . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's nothing in the dock except maybe a couple of beer cans and a radio some clumsy bimbo dropped when she was teetering out of a punt in high heels . |
| 28 | And she 'd , she 'd even get her girlfriend 's mother to ring up to say she was staying there the night , the mothers used to s ring up Joan tell them that it was al alright for er for er Andrea to stay there the night and she was never , she was camping out in the fields with a crowd of them oh |
| 29 | Mrs yeah I was laughing , she was rolling around on the floor laughing , yes I said oh it 's |
| 30 | It was only as she was heading out into the road that she raised her eyes to the rear-view mirror . |