Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her thin lip curled in a rare smile — one might say she had been pursuing her own studies . |
| 2 | For the bride , particularly if they are using her old bedroom , this probably means throwing out her posters of Mel Gibson et al , consigning her huge collection of cuddly toys to the attic and getting rid of the pink frilly duvet . |
| 3 | Her knickers are hobbling her skinny legs where I abandoned them . |
| 4 | Sean was the first man who ever made love to her , and Ruth had thought she loved him too , but it was not a happy marriage and when Sean was killed in France , just before the Armistice was signed , she realised that she had been denying her true feelings for years . |
| 5 | But new rules for NHS dentists are delaying her new set and Ivy can only take liquids . |
| 6 | A woman who has helped scores of homeless people is having to sell some of the houses she uses , because the payments are coming in so late they are causing HER financial difficulties . |
| 7 | Angela asked us for some help with her wedding day look , she had been growing her old hairstyle out but realised it was n't going to be long enough for her wedding day in September . |
| 8 | A baby who defied the odds and survived despite being born sixteen weeks premature , has been celebrating her first birthday . |
| 9 | Today Mrs Wendy Rennie should have been celebrating her eldest son 's nineteenth birthday . |
| 10 | The Queen Mother has been celebrating her ninety-second birthday with a walkabout to meet more than a thousand well-wishers who had gathered outside Clarence House . |
| 11 | She had noticed , over the last weeks , that her mother had not been wearing her favourite ring . |
| 12 | She then felt reluctant to go downstairs to face the man who had so recently been kissing her bare breasts , so she took extra time to straighten the bed where she had almost been willing to — no , longing to make love with Silas , she amended with a burst of mental honesty . |
| 13 | When it emerges that she has been doing her voluntary work in York for just six years , her enormous commitment becomes clear . |
| 14 | Ace had been giving her conflicting messages ever since the first time they 'd met again outside her bedroom door in France . |
| 15 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 16 | He seemed to be drawing her willing body towards his again , but this time she remembered her vow to resist him . |
| 17 | Cheers barmaid , Rebecca , played by Kirstie Alley may be opening her own bar across the street and taking most of the regulars with her . |
| 18 | She felt guilty , always guilty , thinking how she should be opening her whole heart to him . |
| 19 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 20 | And if the Justices get to hear you 've got a belt full of golden coins that you 've not reported , I think they 'll be interested , because whichever way the new Queen jumps , she 'll be wanting her fair share . " |
| 21 | But this year Brenda will be piloting her own machine after trading in her Honda 125 for the super Suzuki . |
| 22 | ‘ I called — quite unexpectedly — just before you came and found her in bed , so I 'm filling her hot water bottle . ’ |
| 23 | She has consistently refused to accept food and other necessities from the authorities as she believes that by accepting such favours she would be condoning her illegal detention . |
| 24 | But then this feels as if it may be a transitional volume , presaging the larger-scale fiction in which Tolstaya should surely be spreading her brilliant wings . |
| 25 | Cawla was a hairdresser she was going to be getting her own chair . |
| 26 | Mrs Boatman will certainly not be expecting her potential charges at Northumberland to be chasing all over the country in search of titles . |
| 27 | There were those , of course , who wondered why England should be sending her brave lads across the Channel to fight against a country which seemed — the Reign of Terror notwithstanding — to be the cradle of a new and attractive democracy . |
| 28 | The first announcement made by Miss Cackle at assembly was the ghastly news that Miss Hardbroom had changed places with Miss Gimlett , and would now be accompanying her old form into their second year . |
| 29 | On the other hand , it was due entirely to his efforts that she would n't be spending her first night in Gibraltar in a prison cell . |
| 30 | Lady Thatcher will be honing her purple prose for the debate in the Lords . |