Example sentences of "[that] she was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belinda asked politely , feeling that she was venturing into quite unknown — but surely fairly safe ? — conversational territory . |
| 2 | It would be typical of Jacqui 's naivety to believe that she was dealing with an honest man who had given her the only copies in existence . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] The bewitching girl every day rose in her charms upon me and I could not help entertaining a jealousy that she was writing to somebody who stood well in her opinion , and my feelings for her made it a sweetheart , of course . |
| 4 | Mrs Whitehouse said that she was writing to the heads of the BBC , the independent TV companies , and the British Board of Film Classification to demand that they personally institute cuts in screen violence . |
| 5 | She was sad in advance , and yet at the same time all the happier , doubly happy , for knowing that she recognized her happiness , that it was not slipping by her unheeded , for knowing that she was creating for herself a past . |
| 6 | I , I , something floated in front of my eyes that she was thinking of applying on part time for the complaint examiner , but she did n't . |
| 7 | Her mother had had a fit when Carolyn admitted that she was living on social security . |
| 8 | The fact is she ran away from her home in late 1962 and her mother heard a few months later that she was living as a common street girl near King 's Cross Station . |
| 9 | you see first of all it was the fact that she was living amongst and |
| 10 | Even the fact that she suggested that they get married shows that she was living in a fantasy world . |
| 11 | She had found out from Angy 's relatives that she was living in the area and had secretly taken the opportunity of getting in touch with her . |
| 12 | Speaking on Sky News on the anniversary of her husband 's death , Mrs Maxwell , 71 , also denied that she was living in luxury while victims of Maxwell 's pensions ' funds plundering faced penury . |
| 13 | She had come to the beginning of the shelters now , which meant that she was drawing near the pier . |
| 14 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 15 | As Wilson mentions , she had recently had a harrowing shock , so it is possible that she was hallucinating in some way and that , by chance , her hallucinations corresponded approximately with historical reality . |
| 16 | At first , especially when she divulged that she was recovering from a nervous breakdown , I assumed that she merely desired a consoling chat with her sister 's old tutor . ’ |
| 17 | Theda looked her over , and saw with satisfaction that she was sinking into slumber . |
| 18 | At home , Daisy said that she was helping with Sunday school teaching . |
| 19 | Balbinder would be 8 at Christmas and she saw no evidence of the improvement in learning to read and write that she was hoping for . |
| 20 | But he could read her too well , and he could see that she was hoping for something more . |
| 21 | But she wondered if , even given time and the success that she was hoping for , he might ever come to feel the same way about her . |
| 22 | Then , with great bravado , she attacked the pile of pine-needles , scooping them up between the giant clutch of her karaso and her own small hand , depositing them in another heap that she was building on top of the rope . |
| 23 | I knew that she was operating on a matter of some principle , something basic and territorial , something she had been taught , perhaps . |
| 24 | Luke stood outside his own front door and read the note that Susan had left under the door-knocker , telling him that she was staying at the Palings Hotel . |
| 25 | Pete 's guess was that everybody in the valley knew something about her by now , and nearly all of them would know that she was staying in his house . |
| 26 | ‘ I have a business engagement , ’ she excused , and wondered for a moment if Lubor had guessed that her business engagement for that evening was with his employer , or if perhaps he already knew from some office discussion with him that she was dining with Ven ? |
| 27 | As for her voice , it seemed to be down at her elbow somewhere , and it was only by a kind of automatic reflex that she was singing at all . |
| 28 | There 's reasonable evidence that she was trying to ‘ turn ’ the Pope . ’ |
| 29 | Branson , meanwhile , suspected that she was trying to ‘ blackmail ’ Virgin into bringing her renegotiations to a hasty and favourable conclusion . |
| 30 | Now if you had n't have said so Liz I would n't have realized that she was trying to , you know , er probe her individuality and er women had a a place . |