Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the eligible mature men were married already , and it would not be fitting to contract her in a match where she was not the senior wife . |
| 2 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 3 | ‘ I have always gone to see her at Kensington Palace — well , I was n't going to see her in a railway siding , was I ? |
| 4 | But now he was going to see her in the flesh . |
| 5 | That ‘ little grey home in the west ’ idea was n't going to fool her for a minute ; it was easy to see that the man sitting next to her loved every minute of his fast-living , action-packed life . |
| 6 | And I was very worried because the lady that was going to be paying for the job was just down there and if we were n't careful we were going to kill her with the wardrobe . |
| 7 | The residents could have been waiting to mug her with a Zimmer frame . |
| 8 | and the fact you 're going to help her with the dinner , huh |
| 9 | Uncle Harry was going to cast her as the hitchhiker in Mondo Desire . |
| 10 | And erm they were going to send her for an interview straight away . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's remembered she found a brochure for a hotel in Northumberland and she leapt to the conclusion that Garry was going to surprise her with an unexpected holiday . |
| 12 | Then it began to dim as he realised , first , that it was Viola Angotti and , second , that he was not going to get her into the garbage can without a great deal of help . |
| 13 | There according to her letter a trap would be waiting to convey her to the Hall . |
| 14 | I was going to threaten her with the law . |
| 15 | Then one day , when she came out of school there was a car waiting to take her for a screen test , and something magical happened as soon as she stood in front of a camera , and she became an actress , a real actress not a washed-up joke like her mother , and everyone admired her . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm going to groom her , and then I 'm going to show her to the National Theatre . |
| 17 | Their visits to the Expo became less frequent , Fernando now wishing to introduce her to the romance of Seville itself . |
| 18 | They coincided with Mrs Yaxlee 's own ideas closely enough for the latter to trust her to do the shopping while at the same time failing to include her in the invitation which she so palpably wanted . |
| 19 | Presumably another girl from the company , thought Lefevre , although he could not recall having noticed her during the performance . |
| 20 | Having got her into the line the girl glanced at her and whispered , ‘ What 's your name ? ’ |
| 21 | She thought someone was coming to fetch her in a boat to take her away . |
| 22 | Having shown her to a modern , well-appointed bathroom next to the kitchen , he left her . |
| 23 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 24 | And this goblin came along one day and says to this peedie fairy that like he was coming to get her in the morning . |
| 25 | He was longing to ask Emily more about Vic , but having put her on the spot , he felt that this was not the right moment . |
| 26 | Her common-law husband ( who was never traced ) having left her with the ring from her finger , she went to several alehouses carrying her child and drank 8 glasses of spirits in a fit of depression . |
| 27 | It was as if , having goaded her to the point of total capitulation , he 'd opted for a wary cooling-off period . |
| 28 | We dread having to take her to the vets for her nails to be cut . |
| 29 | ‘ What pains me is that you took the opportunity when I was sick unto death to steal Prince Edward 's heart from me , ’ she said to Joan , having informed her of the plan . |
| 30 | Undermining his mother 's social prestige was-one thing , having to tell her about the book himself was another . |