Example sentences of "she [was/were] [v-ing] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dropped the bowl that she was using to the floor . |
| 2 | She was referring to the illness which put him in hospital last year before he was moved out of Pollsmoor to his present quarters , formerly a prison warden 's home . |
| 3 | She was referring to the North and South Heys which flowed from their source at Ranlodden Moor towards the six-hundred-foot hills that towered over Heymouth . |
| 4 | She was referring to The Glass key starring Edward Arnold , George Raft and Claire Dodd . |
| 5 | She was referring to the graze on his knee . |
| 6 | She looked away from him , a faint blush beginning at her jawline , and he knew she was referring to the fact that he had not betrayed her , even though he knew she had lied about being with her mother in Wales . |
| 7 | He must have known she was referring to the game he was playing with Lotta ! |
| 8 | It had worried him for a moment , he had n't been quite sure what she meant , but then he reckoned she was referring to the troubles . |
| 9 | She was moving to the great gates and before Maggie could react the white-gowned figure had gone around the corner and out of sight . |
| 10 | Jess glanced at Miss Phoebe to see how she was reacting to the bit about niggers . |
| 11 | Maybe she was reacting to the challenge . |
| 12 | She was reacting to the soft note in his voice , letting it wash over her and slow down the beat of her heart . |
| 13 | She was pointing to the mug . |
| 14 | Her two hands went to her face ; then she was flying to the door next to the factory and , hammering on it , called , ‘ Tommy ! |
| 15 | Jane dreamt she was clinging to the edge of a cliff , and her bank manager was hammering at her fingers . |
| 16 | She was clinging to the seat with both hands . |
| 17 | She was clinging to the lifeline of Rourke 's feelings for her , and who could say that he would deny her that refuge ? |
| 18 | Melissa took a step forward and saw that she was clinging to the cast-iron pillar with both hands , her face half hidden among the foliage , her shoulders heaving . |
| 19 | Just then , as she was listening to the wind outside , she heard another noise , in the house . |
| 20 | Alina stayed where she was , her eyes closed , almost as if she was listening to the silence . |
| 21 | In February 1940 she was writing to the Chief Rabbi to report on two of Solomon Schonfeld 's children who had turned up unannounced at Bloomsbury House . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ’ When still she made no move , he chuckled and made as if to put the document away again , pausing when he saw out of the corner of his eye that she was returning to the desk , albeit hesitantly . |
| 24 | She was crooning to the child . |
| 25 | So she was going to the opposite direction actually , and I insisted that I do n't want to take her that long she would have to walk back again . |
| 26 | She cabled her parents and told them she was going to the Salvation Army College in London . |
| 27 | The following morning , accompanied at Aunt Emily 's command by a trembling Lyddy who was sure she was going to the very mouth of Hades , Alexandra was driven out to Trelorne , dressed very much as she had been when she trespassed along the shore . |
| 28 | She was going to the airport and not to Alain 's house . |
| 29 | Before they parted May told her friend she was going to the cinema but she never left her house again . |
| 30 | And then she was going to the careers office . |