Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] she be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the scenes she made out of nothing were part of another , more insidious pleasure she was experiencing : she wanted to see how much punishment he would take , how long he would go on bowing his head . |
| 2 | A seventeen year old girl was seriously injured when the stolen car she was riding in crashed into a tree . |
| 3 | Sally Ann Cattell , 14 , of Birmingham , was killed after the stolen car she was driving crashed during a police chase . |
| 4 | And was this strange emotion she was experiencing jealousy ? |
| 5 | The feeling of cool linen sheets against her heated skin just added to the almost unbearable sexual tension she was feeling . |
| 6 | oh my god it 's the incredible hulk oh and you know Jayne with the skirt up here , well in English study she was walking up the steps like this |
| 7 | oh my god it 's the incredible hulk oh and you know Jayne with the skirt up here , well in English study she was walking up the steps like this |
| 8 | Pity it was n't his severed head she was going to view ! |
| 9 | Kelly glanced at the racing paper she was holding . |
| 10 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 11 | The outward calm she was managing to project was achieved only by a supreme effort of will-power . |
| 12 | Since their arrival at ‘ La Felicità ’ she seemed to have forgotten all the social life she was missing in England and devoted her energies to the narcissistic process of going brown , measuring each day the contrast between her exposed wrist and the satisfying white band left beneath her watch-strap . |
| 13 | Her erratic gaze paused briefly on the broken nail she was picking with her other hand . |
| 14 | It was only their second week and Flavia , a little puzzled , a little awed , at times , was at ease now with the alien friend , the tender and exciting alien she was beginning to love a little . |
| 15 | She was arrested five years ago by a Cairo narcotics squad who found £3m worth of heroin hidden in a concealed compartment of an ornamental wooden elephant she was carrying through the capital 's airport . |
| 16 | So she thought then , but , when another fifteen minutes went by and her phone stayed silent , rebellion once more bombarded the cool and calm front she was trying to erect . |
| 17 | And it turned out to be simply because she knew she was pregnant ; a mechanical trick she was turning on him . |
| 18 | She did n't want Roman thinking she was angling for sympathy . |
| 19 | Merrill stared at the crumbly mess she was making on her plate . |
| 20 | It was n't only Simon she pushed over the edge : in that defiant , violent act she was taking revenge on all those people who had ever hurt her and made her feel worthless . |
| 21 | Luke grinned again ; that wolfish grin she was coming to recognise . |
| 22 | The famous high temper which no one , not even her formidable papa , knew how to cope with , once she was on fire , was being controlled by a man whose outward-seeming was mild and pleasant , although beneath Dr Neil 's bland exterior she was beginning to sense a will as strong and resolute as her own . |
| 23 | She heaved a great sigh of which she was privately rather proud , thinking that it added a touch of verisimilitude to the sad tale she was spinning . |
| 24 | If the child in the cradle on whom Carabosse lays her curse after the other fairy godmothers have given her everything that makes a girl lovable could have understood the ordinary life she was forfeiting , she would have renounced their fairy boons ; given the choice , Caterina would have rejected her charms too , in order to be closer to her sister , to be more like Rosa . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going to feel like an idiot if someone comes and opens that door right now , ’ she muttered , using words like a shield to try and hide her real distress , the real reason she was feeling like an idiot . |
| 26 | Coins rained down on to the stage , and accepting their payment caused her more embarrassment than the impromptu show she was putting on . |
| 27 | He hesitated , suddenly noting the paleness of Ruth 's features and the nervous way she was swivelling her glass in her fingers . |
| 28 | In arguing for the relevance of the notion of autonomy in private life , she brings into question the demarcation point between private and public life which is assumed by most of the philosophical tradition she is working in . |
| 29 | The philosophical tradition she is working within is Kantian : she emphasises that human cognition is an ‘ active process of taking and structuring experience ’ , and therefore , she argues , a process that entails freedom and responsibility and the associated ethical virtues of honesty , humility and courage . |
| 30 | In nervous haste she was bending to retrieve them when her eye caught the name at the top of the first : P. Gray . |