Example sentences of "[subord] she was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should she join the group of young vets who had qualified with her two years ago or should she go straight back to her godmother 's house , where she was staying for the duration of this annual veterinary congress ? |
| 2 | It was one of wistful regret rather than fretful anxiety and had taken her to her daughter 's bedroom , where she was sorting through the show-jumping rosettes Samantha had accumulated during her hippomanic early teens . |
| 3 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 4 | Where she came from , where she was going to , or what her name was , nobody knows . ’ |
| 5 | She grew up associating ‘ love ’ with an emotional roller-coaster , and although she was looking for a long-term partner , Deborah quickly became bored and dissatisfied in a stable relationship . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not the lion I fear , ’ she cried , ‘ but the jackal ’ , and although she was referring to Rufio , not Caesar , it was St Ives she confronted . |
| 7 | Although she was facing into the room , Karen said , ‘ You do n't drive a green Merc , do you , Sam ? ’ |
| 8 | Although she was following in the footsteps of some very good leaders Lord Thurso felt she " never languished in the shade of her predecessors , but brought her own style of freshness and enthusiasm , backed by a deep and secure christian faith " . |
| 9 | She had the face of a cat or a witch , but although she was smiling at him in a queerly macabre way , she looked exhausted and forlorn . |
| 10 | The Jessica I 'd known then would have felt more enthusiasm for a Christmas cracker bangle than she was showing for her gold bracelet . |
| 11 | To allow them to flourish could lead only to pain — even greater pain than she was feeling in this moment , though she could hardly imagine anything could be greater . |
| 12 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 13 | It was n't until she was stumbling from the room that she saw her mother . |
| 14 | He kissed her deeply , until she was clinging to his shoulders , and then he drew back . |
| 15 | She had n't realized until she was bumping along the road away from the dock that she 'd been shaking like an aspen leaf . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes … this is what I want … this … ’ and they were both shaking as he pushed the thin green silk dress from her body , throwing it to the floor , and came back to her at once , saying thickly , ‘ Give me everything … make love with me … make love ! ’ and he kissed her deeply , making her excitement deeper , hotter , until she was moving against him , delirious , her body almost nude save for thin silk briefs . |
| 17 | Nicola worked backwards on the bed until she was resting against the wall ; she pulled her knees up and clasped them . |
| 18 | His fingers found her most sensitive spot and touched with feather-lightness again and again , until she was wriggling against him , her hair sticking wildly around her face . |
| 19 | And then , when he had taunted her and tempted her until she was shaking with need , with easy strength he lifted her , and put her back down so that his throbbing masculinity was nestled inside the warm and inviting hollow of her body . |
| 20 | His earlier gentleness drained away swiftly until his hands were heated , his mouth fierce as he claimed her breasts , and her wild cries only served to increase his demands until she was shaking in his arms . |
| 21 | She felt her knees begin to buckle , but his strength held her to him — taking her fevered body into his embrace , heaping fire on fire until she was crying for him in a voice unlike her own . |
| 22 | She climbed up again , then ran along the shoreline until she was standing at the nearest point to it . |
| 23 | Bernice took advantage of the show to slide sideways , until she was standing behind Miles , Teal Green and a psychologist named Filo Julee . |
| 24 | She 'd had no idea what the house looked like , until she was going through that wooden gate when , holding Millie by the hand , she espied it in the distance . |
| 25 | Is she , is she gon na move or does sh , cos she was thinking of moving |
| 26 | Cos she was smoking like |
| 27 | Yeah , cos she was watching at our house one day when she come down |
| 28 | Cos she was going to the panto thingy . |
| 29 | Alina stayed where she was , her eyes closed , almost as if she was listening to the silence . |
| 30 | know of her , see if she was speeding on the pavement |