Example sentences of "she [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think she found looking after tiny children a bit too much for her . |
| 2 | Adverbial clauses she subdivided according to functional relationship ( time and causal , for instance ) — the categories will be familiar to anyone nurtured in the traditional approach to clause analysis ! |
| 3 | She recalled singing in both operas at Boosback as a 16-year-old and says she was amazed to be given the female lead in The Beggars ' and only three weeks in which to learn the words and music ! |
| 4 | She began speaking in rapid Italian , and Nicolo held up his hand . |
| 5 | From that day , early in the October of 1845 , she began drawing on all their outlying accounts and amassing the money with Chambers . |
| 6 | After Rigby ended the relationship , she began living with another musician , Michael Duane , at his flat in Leeds . |
| 7 | Using her hands she began paddling in that direction . |
| 8 | That was what stung most of all — the fact that he did n't even expect her to complete the one thing she loved doing in all the world , the one thing she was good at . |
| 9 | She went rambling on much as I am doing myself now . |
| 10 | ‘ She kept fiddling with that blasted lighter , ’ moaned St Ives . |
| 11 | She was carrying a bag of shopping that she kept moving from one hand to the other . |
| 12 | She kept thinking of that , of their telling Mrs Blakey in the kitchen and Mrs Blakey throwing her head back and laughing . |
| 13 | She lay listening to these signs of a weather change and wondered whether Tristram had decided not to come after all . |
| 14 | She remembered drawing with white chalk the six squares for hopping and , at the far end , a semicircle which she labelled ‘ BED ’ . |
| 15 | I asked if she liked living in this country . |
| 16 | She liked going for slow , rather stately walks in the summer evenings when the shop was closed and the children in bed , and I usually escorted her . |
| 17 | She continued thinking like this throughout her affair , separation from Karenin and life with Vronsky because she could n't help it . |
| 18 | Jasper and she stood looking into each other 's faces , alive and tingling and delighted , knowing that anyone looking at them could guess , simply from the waves of energy that danced from them . |
| 19 | For the next ten minutes or so she sat listening to these mature men chipping him , and he , her quiet Charlie , giving them back as much as they sent . |
| 20 | People came and went as she sat thinking about this . |