Example sentences of "[v-ing] her new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if fitzAlan had not been involved , Isabel knew she would have to find another way to save her brother , because she could not deceive the anxious , sweet-faced lady who was gently explaining her new duties . |
| 2 | But she is keeping her new man under wraps . |
| 3 | Katie Jane 's been stricken by the acting but too , floating in as a jilted bride in wig and mask before revealing her new crop and slinging on the trademark tousled Ophelia barnet . |
| 4 | That was three years ago and Mrs Hilton is now relishing her new role as fundraiser for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society . |
| 5 | But new rules for NHS dentists are delaying her new set and Ivy can only take liquids . |
| 6 | Maria paused in the doorway , surveying her new colleagues and their partners , a handful of them local people but mainly men and women from all over the English-speaking world , because radio people had a gypsy tendency to move on every few years . |
| 7 | But she was still enjoying her new position as mistress of a farm and house , and although she respected and liked him , she did not want to marry him . |
| 8 | Her tiredness fled before the immediate prospect of encountering her new employer . |
| 9 | Chair , it was one officer whom we 've got on staff at the moment Karen Wheeler who 's away nursing her new baby , and it 's to authorize that officer to carry out certain roles under the health and safety |
| 10 | Remembering her new needs , she embarrassedly asked the man behind the counter for a box of towels . |
| 11 | Promoting her new movie Forever Young , she quizzed reporters to see if they had watched the film — and vetoed interviews with those who had n't . |
| 12 | Even to refusing her new boots . |
| 13 | The next days were filled with meeting her new relatives , feasting , and listening to interminable songs praising her beauty . |
| 14 | Carolyn stood by the table , sipping her new tea and wondering what she could cook . |
| 15 | She carries on investigating her new present and seeing how it works . |
| 16 | The little girl seems to have forgotten the incident and stops feeding her new doll to return my wave as we leave the dining room . |
| 17 | The walk looked like being one of Fen 's brisk route marches , and Robbie thanked heaven she was wearing her new shoes . |
| 18 | More to the point , considering her new responsibility for health , one of the hottest potatoes in government , her daughter is working as a junior doctor . |
| 19 | Buying her new clothes helped , with all the half-forgotten luxury of choosing the models in Dior 's grey-and-gold salon and returning for fittings as the suits and dresses were moulded to her figure . |
| 20 | ‘ Th'should stand firm , ’ Jess said , letting her new role take over , then going very red at her own daring . |
| 21 | AMANDA DIETZ There was no rest for Amanda Dietz who only took one off between leaving Johnstone High School and starting her new job at Stoddard . |
| 22 | Tero followed them at a distance , watching her new friend with sorrowful anxious eyes . |
| 23 | ‘ Listen , my dear , ’ she said to Alexandra , summoned flushed and impatient from the orchard where she had been settling her new charges in and attempting , as tactfully as possible , to exclude Murphy from the process , ‘ Mrs Langley says George is heartened beyond anything by your visit . |
| 24 | A column entitled ‘ Bulletin ’ informs her that Marilyn French will be discussing her new book , Beyond Power : Women , Men and Morals , at a public meeting to be held later in the week in London , and it crosses Robyn 's mind , not for the first time , that it is a pity she lives so far from the metropolis where such exciting events are always happening . |
| 25 | The condition of the liver transplant patient Mrs Aisling Barnett has improved since she was given a Japanese drug , which is still undergoing clinical trials , to stop her body rejecting her new liver . |