Example sentences of "she [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fand looked stranger than ever , her face fixed and old as if she were withering in this icy fire . |
| 2 | She were coughing like mad ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her tiredness seemed to soak away from her , as though she were lying in warm water ; she felt not only welcome , but positively needed . |
| 5 | Hugh began , but Molly was already up and almost running down the stone steps as if she were hurrying towards some long-planned assignation . |
| 6 | She were knocking for this thing you know . |
| 7 | You know , for one pound she were paying like three quid a week or whatever . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | she were going with this lad through and it 's the easiest three pound , three pound ten I 've ever earned Good though that int it ? |
| 10 | I think she 's getting with all them fillings out of the way . |
| 11 | Offically the new job starts in September , but for now she 's getting in some valuable practice as acting head , while the current Head Boy takes his exams . |
| 12 | But she 's getting round most of the planet-based scrambling systems . |
| 13 | Julie says she was never told about the risk of toxoplasmosis … and she 's calling for all pregnant women to be screened for the infection : |
| 14 | So Barbara , meself and a couple of the kids came along , , a couple of the kids were in on this , backing away sort of thing , and of course she went on this used car lot , and she 's looking at these Volkswagens , and John was doing his bit , I believe you like Polos . |
| 15 | She 's looking through this rack of suits so I go and give her a hand . |
| 16 | ‘ I expect she 's looking for another husband , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Not that she 's complaining about that , of course . ’ |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | She 's riding in big cars and she 's dressing like a tart . |
| 20 | She 's hoping for better things this time round . |
| 21 | Yes , she 's leaving in three weeks before the end of term . |
| 22 | yes , but normally she does n't watch erm six o'clock news because she 's cooking at six o'clock or seven o'clock . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She 's staying in that caravan he 's got in field there . |
| 25 | By the afternoon she 's tucking into three or four chocolate digestives and in the evening has something like baked beans on toast and the odd glass of wine . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | And er she 's working on that . |
| 28 | She she 's working on some poxy thing ! |
| 29 | She said she 's working till six , and then going to aerobics |
| 30 | Mrs Armitage says she 's fighting for other families too . |