Example sentences of "[prep] she [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She opened the heavy oak doors and the dogs swept past her bounding across the drive to their master who was opening up the car boot to remove his luggage . |
| 2 | I 've got photographs of her leaning on hay rakes with yokels in smocks , more or less . ’ |
| 3 | Then , to Perdita 's squirming embarrassment , he replayed the clip of her rowing with the umpire three times , freezing the frame of her yelling with her mouth wide open , until her teammates were howling with laughter and rolling round on the floor . |
| 4 | of her calling from the blue like this , |
| 5 | It 's sad because I shall cherish the memory of her gazing at the palms of her newly extended hands and saying ‘ Fancy . |
| 6 | He was only dimly aware of Alina coming down the steps toward him , only dimly aware of her crouching by him to smooth the hair from his forehead . |
| 7 | And there was the idea of her submitting to a search and medical check by prison guards after she had relentlessly promoted herself and her Helmsley Palace Hotel in the last decade as ‘ The Palace Where The Queen Stands Guard . ’ |
| 8 | A disquieting picture of the girl in the basement came into Ianthe 's mind and she was almost shocked to realise that she did not like to think of her looking after John . |
| 9 | To maintain her riskless arbitrage , Mary was instantly required to sell her holding in Metal Bashers Ltd , buy shares in British Telecommunications to bring her holding up to 10% of her portfolio and sell part of her holding in each of the other 99 companies to reduce their average weight in her portfolio to 0.909% . |
| 10 | Once , the wind blew her long , pale hair forwards over his shoulder and strands of it caught his face and stroked it , and he could smell the fragrance of her drifting through his body . |
| 11 | IN Ruddigore , Mad Margaret could be snapped out of her raving by the password ‘ Basingstoke ’ . |
| 12 | Lawyers for the Princess of Wales have been granted an injunction to prevent further publication of photographs of her exercising in a gym seen in the Sunday and Daily Mirror newspapers . |
| 13 | And , while she was chewing on that , suddenly some fierce Czech expletive rent the air , then , ‘ Hell , did you have me fooled ! ’ he raged , and when she had been certain that his fury was wholly on account of her pretending to be a journalist when she was not , he proceeded to throw her thinking totally out of gear when , his face whiter than ever , ‘ You wanted that interview so badly you were even ready to commit adultery to get — ’ |
| 14 | The likelihood of her arrival at Brighton , the possibility of her speaking in the debate on immigration , and the nice problem of what to do with the old bat on the Friday afternoon ( a vote of thanks ? a place on the platform ? a solo entrance ? ) — these matters were all now exercising Fowler 's mind , the peace of which was not helped by the lead story in the Daily Mail : ‘ MAGGIE BRIGHTON BOUND ’ . |
| 15 | Her main work was centred at a refuge for prostitutes and the women under her charge became used to the sight of her arriving with the latest member of her growing family in her arms . |
| 16 | Mr Y wrote me a note , ‘ would I make some notes on her , there is a possibility of her going into the unit ’ ( withdrawal unit for disruptive pupils ) . |
| 17 | Wesley man , calm down get your top out of her bra , hand out of her let go of her going for her coconuts . |
| 18 | She will try desperately to use seductive charms to lure a male character into freeing her , telling a tragic tale of her spurning of Drachenfels and her long imprisonment , talking in a husky and seductive tone . |
| 19 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 20 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 21 | Sooner or later , if she ever got her reason back , she would realise that her daughter had resigned from this German job six weeks before the accident , that she had n't breathed a word to her aunt or her friends about the possibility of her returning to Europe . |
| 22 | Indeed , all in all , I can not see why the option of her returning to Darlington Hall and seeing out her working years there should not offer a very genuine consolation to a life that has come to be so dominated by a sense of waste . |
| 23 | As there was very little chance of her returning to the dale , except for occasional visits , Bob had succeeded , with a bit of self-discipline , in putting her out of his mind . |
| 24 | And now that she was clearly going to have to give up her job — Ross had made it clear that he would n't approve of her returning to work , and especially not when she was expecting a baby — having something to get her teeth into , such as restoring an ancient building , sounded a great idea . |
| 25 | However , she is among the best organised of girls and golfers , and there is no danger of her reneging on her original plan . |
| 26 | She is planning a long holiday in Egypt and America and there has been talk of her working on a new ITV soap called Routes . |
| 27 | Yes , she was one of those , despite her pretending to be friendly . |
| 28 | I would n't walk to Croydon with her hanging round my neck . |
| 29 | Eh between you and me , Alan is n't with her according to Margaret . |
| 30 | But , standing in her bathroom , with her looking at him with those lovely blue eyes , her whole soul looking him in the face , her integrity undeniable , he knew the truth . |