Example sentences of "[vb past] she [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again . |
| 2 | One day , when Sam found her weeping in a corner nursing a black eye , he told her she had got to stop . |
| 3 | Essex Coroner Dr Malcolm Weir was told Mrs Bowyer 's husband , Bernard , found her hanging on January 27 when he returned from shopping . |
| 4 | But a friend found her hanging in her room just a week into her course . |
| 5 | He found her lying with a cold compress on her forehead , the pupils of her eyes strangely dilated . |
| 6 | ‘ I found her lying with her head on a little chair and half lying on the floor . |
| 7 | I walked inside , came upstairs … and found her lying on the bed . |
| 8 | Defries found her lying on her back , eyes open . |
| 9 | She was seen by neighbours as she made her way along Athelstane Road towards her home , minutes before passers-by found her lying on the pavement . |
| 10 | Isa Blagden , arriving one day to look over the Casa Guidi , called on Wilson and found her lying in a dark room , huddled under the covers of her bed , the Bible in her hand and tears streaming down her face . |
| 11 | Police found her lying in a pool of blood with the murder weapon nearby . |
| 12 | I found her lying in bed , looking pale and weak . |
| 13 | A friend of the dead woman found her lying in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor . |
| 14 | They finally found her lying in bed in a smoke-filled bedroom , and helped her to safety . |
| 15 | I found her lying among the Foinmen . " |
| 16 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 17 | Her English teacher found her crying by herself over the job of rearranging the drama cupboard . |
| 18 | When he came home he found her peering into the well of his top hat . |
| 19 | The next day found her driving round the busy , bustling city of Sheffield , desperately trying to keep one eye on the traffic , and the other on the directions scrawled on a piece of paper . |
| 20 | They found her sitting at the table with the Telegraph , nibbling toast . |
| 21 | He found her sitting at the desk which was quite clear . |
| 22 | She found her sitting on a bench beneath a stark tree in the college grounds , in a snowy landscape . |
| 23 | One morning her parents found her sitting outside her bedroom door . |
| 24 | He found her sitting behind her great oak desk , chatting to the two Sub-prioresses , a roll of accounts before them . |
| 25 | ‘ We found her sitting in the loo lighting up . ’ |
| 26 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
| 27 | I found her standing by the sink , which she was filling with hot water . |
| 28 | Essentially , the bisexual Bessie was the Madonna of her day , the Queen Of The Blues , the Empress Of Erotica , her ‘ Empty Bed Blues ’ providing a catalogue of lovers who had satisfied her sexually , while ‘ Foolish Man Blues ’ found her musing about homosexuality : ‘ There 's two things got me puzzled , there 's two things I do n't understand/That 's a mannish-acting woman and a skipping , twistin' woman-acting man . ’ |
| 29 | He waited thirty seconds before glancing sideways again , and found her dabbing at her face , trying hard not to sniff . |
| 30 | my mum told me to wipe some of it , some of it off cos I could n't her shout , I , I , I caught her shouting at my sister , she got really angry with my sister |