Example sentences of "she [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She were coughing like mad ! |
| 2 | She felt as though she were treading on thin ice and any false move might plunge her once more into the dark depths of despair . |
| 3 | Her tiredness seemed to soak away from her , as though she were lying in warm water ; she felt not only welcome , but positively needed . |
| 4 | Too often , friends and colleagues react to the information that someone is suffering from depression either by agreeing that they often feel a bit down themselves but manage to cope , or else by treating the person as if he or she were suffering from mental disease . |
| 5 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 6 | She 's riding in big cars and she 's dressing like a tart . |
| 7 | Apparently her parents think she 's staying with wanted to know if she could send them our phone number and say she was staying here . |
| 8 | They 've told her she 's had three years more than what she should of had , she 's living on borrowed time , but , erm , she said the ho er |
| 9 | Mrs Armitage says she 's fighting for other families too . |
| 10 | Mrs mentions that when she 's talking about sophisticated London |
| 11 | She 's talking about improved representation and personalize that in relation to the Northumberland area , which would n't contradict what , whatever flows from structures and branch structures in the transitional period er which is you know good six months to a , a , a year away as it were . |
| 12 | That 's the , that 's the crux of the story , she 's she 's campaigning against bad language and she sent , has given a letter to all the in the school with fuck you in it . |
| 13 | but Valerie 's she 's , she 's going on alright but er , she ca n't move those fingers |
| 14 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 15 | Beverley Allitt 's weight dropped from 13st to 7st before the start of her trial at Nottingham Crown Court and defence barrister James Hunt QC told the jury she is suffering from severe anorexia . |
| 16 | Like the rest of the group she is working against considerable odds — yet these odds are in part created by the nature of the scheme itself . |
| 17 | ‘ A year ago we were told that Laura was dying today she is running about full of energy and looking great . ’ |
| 18 | The new puppy is very timid with strangers but now she is old enough to go out for walks , we have found she is growling at other dogs . |
| 19 | Does n't she realize the effect that she is having on other people ? |
| 20 | She was drowning in sensory pleasure as his mouth moved from hers to place its erotic touch on her eyelids , her temples , followed the high line of her sculptured cheekbone , every movement speaking of his possessive need , his mounting passion , his overriding desire to invade and conquer her . |
| 21 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 22 | Melody sounded as though she was speaking through chattering teeth and he climbed the ladder , carefully balancing pie and ale . |
| 23 | She was speaking at random , saying anything at all , only to try to distract this acute old woman from saying what was clearly in her mind . |
| 24 | I found her standing by the sink , which she was filling with hot water . |
| 25 | I was n't sure whether she was referring to regional unemployment figures or the fact that I claimed to have actually worked for once . |
| 26 | Her mother had had a fit when Carolyn admitted that she was living on social security . |
| 27 | But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold . |
| 28 | ‘ And there is n't even a sunset yet , ’ she husked desperately as the fire of his body and his need for her swelled and swelled within her till she was writhing with sweet ecstasy beneath him on the dry , dusty cliff-top . |
| 29 | But when the Nefertari appeared after her annual refit , she was gleaming with fresh white and blue paint and varnished wood . |
| 30 | Now she was leaving for good . |