Example sentences of "[vb pp] and she [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have gone outside , grabbed the keys of the bike and taken off , but instead he was trapped and she was following him , her footsteps tentative on the stairs . |
| 2 | ‘ I could ring for a taxi , ’ she suggested , when the final guests had departed and she was standing with her host and hostess on the drive . |
| 3 | The appointment of a transport adviser has now been made and she is preparing to leave for Accra at the time of writing this report . |
| 4 | Another lady that I met was suffering from the elephant man 's disease ; her husband had recently died and she was expecting a baby . |
| 5 | Her imagination is stimulated and she 's expressing herself vocally . ’ |
| 6 | And she would n't have it brushed and she was shaking her head about when you tried to brush it so . |
| 7 | Her father and mother are divorced and she was living with her father , her stepmother , her sister and brother , and a stepsister and stepbrother . |
| 8 | Marie had arrived and she was watching openly , making no move to go into the house and get on with her job . |
| 9 | And the dream took her into hospital where the nice young man was lying in bed with his head bandaged and she was holding his hand ; and the dream brought a little comfort to the events of a night that was to be the turning point in her life . |
| 10 | Zahira 's pains increased and she was screaming uncontrollably . |
| 11 | Her smooth , happy look was gone and she was screwing up her eyes and her mouth so that her whole face seemed crumpled . |
| 12 | Suddenly the anguish was gone and she was laughing and crying at the same time . |
| 13 | The penicillin injected into Julia 's veins four times a day killed the infection inexorably , and within three days the oxygen tent had been removed and she was sitting up in bed waiting for her meals with real hunger . |
| 14 | Well , for instance , that she lived in a in an old vicarage , cos her husband had been a a , no a tri , priest in the Church of England and er we her house was haunted and she was telling us stories and sh she quite often saw the ghost , she was never worried , she never cos it never frightened her it was n't vicious or anything like that and she often saw it quite matter of fact . |
| 15 | Her face had slackened and she was crying but without any sound . |
| 16 | ‘ She made it clear no decision had been taken and she was going to look at the Tomlinson Report with a totally objective view , ’ he said . |
| 17 | HER FORMAL SCHOOLING HAD ENDED AND SHE WAS ATTENDING SECRETARIAL COLLEGE . |
| 18 | When she reappeared , her bald head gleaming dully , her arms were extended and she was making the mooing noise again . |