Example sentences of "she was [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe they thought she was just exploring the area within the walls . |
| 2 | She was just using the fact that I was desperate to hold me up for an outrageously high fee . |
| 3 | Her manner said that this was a thing of great indifference to her , but that she was just setting the record straight . |
| 4 | She was just crossing the square , and wondering where in her portmanteau she had placed her woollen shawl , when she became aware of footsteps that were not her own . |
| 5 | She was just lighting the gas on the tiny ring when the knocker on the front door sounded a veritable tattoo . |
| 6 | She was also cursing the stupidity that had made her accept — even by default — a dinner date with a man so obviously well-heeled without considering the depleted state of her wardrobe . |
| 7 | She was also to have the preferment in buying all " precious stones or pearl " to be found in the working of these mines . |
| 8 | FIRE ( a dead end ; she was simply recalling the sign , not the occasion . |
| 9 | At the time I conjectured — and she said doubtfully that I might be right — that she was thus exorcizing the spirit of ‘ ferocity , brutality , violence ’ , which had tempted her artist in A Wreath of Roses away from her true world , and made her fearful of being ‘ ladylike , nostalgic , governessy ’ . |
| 10 | When she reached a certain point it bent sharply and excitingly down , and she was soon enjoying the sensation of going up and down on a galloping pony . |
| 11 | She was later to become the council 's vice-chairman . |
| 12 | Jane noticed that it was fairly sheltered — she was already imagining the winter . |
| 13 | She was already crossing the room when she smacked her forehead . |
| 14 | She was already crossing the room to the nearest of the french windows , moving with an urgency that she did n't seem prepared to explain . |
| 15 | After having her breast removed , she was then told the malignancy had spread to the lymph nodes under her arm . |
| 16 | Within four weeks of filming her final episode and saying goodbye to her friends at Grundy , Kylie was based in London where she was now enjoying the sort of stardom attention reserved for Madonna and Michael Jackson . |
| 17 | She was now feeling the ground underneath her back . |
| 18 | She went on industriously compressing and releasing , but now she felt the breath of life responding to her touch , following the pressure of her hands in and out , lifting the body under her , until she was only orchestrating the performance , and signalling its progression by the measured touch of her palms and undulation of her body . |
| 19 | He asked her to go into the fo'c's'le and as soon as she was inside closed the hatch and said that she could come out when she was ready to apologise . |
| 20 | She was still clutching the shoe-parcel , as well as the flags . |
| 21 | Lucy looked down and realised that she was still carrying the switchblade . |
| 22 | She was still digesting the resentment with which his concluding confession was coloured and the mockery lacing his final endearment as Luke reached for her . |
| 23 | And happened , opened the door any wider , cos she was still strapping the child in . |
| 24 | She realised she was still gripping the stone , and dropped it with a little horrified cry . |
| 25 | Bernice 's mind was suddenly filled with a vivid memory : she was almost reliving the moment when she and the Doctor had been discussing the difficulty of tampering with the TARDIS . |
| 26 | He was , to her amazement , remarkably patient with her efforts , and she found she was actually enjoying the lesson , relishing the challenge of making her body work with the skis instead of against them . |
| 27 | Susan was initially upset about not being allowed to have a nappy but mother 's persistence and confidence was quickly communicated to Susan and within three days she was happily using the lavatory to pass a motion . |
| 28 | It must be remembered that W. was not refusing all medical treatment — she was merely expressing the view that she wished to remain at Dr. M. 's clinic . |
| 29 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 30 | But she was merely changing the venue . |