Example sentences of "she was [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With her uplifted left foot she was shoving the next foster mother square in the mouth . |
| 2 | She was organising the next bout , to take place soon after the election , shortly before she died . |
| 3 | It was also reported that a new chapter in Andrew Morton 's controversial biography of the Princess would include details of a letter from the Duke warning her of the damage she was causing the Royal Family . |
| 4 | She was clutching a large handbag on her lap as if it was a shield . |
| 5 | ‘ One time , back in the Metaltronix days , I got a call from a violinist who was in one of the Philharmonic orchestras , and she was using a Perfect Connection preamp for her electric violin . |
| 6 | She was using a French passport and the name Marcelle Fayette . |
| 7 | She was looking the other way and did n't see me . ’ |
| 8 | Ellie felt an elemental thrill as she stepped through the great swing doors , as if she was entering an ancient cathedral rather than a modern monument to commercial enterprise . |
| 9 | Once upon a time , she had been able to withstand Florentine summers better than any English woman she knew but of late they had begun to tire her , to make her feel that in everything she did she was pushing a large boulder up a hill . |
| 10 | She was frowning a little as if trying to concentrate , and she was even paler than before . |
| 11 | She was seeking the next angle , the next approach , knowing that she 'd have at the most a couple of minutes to make her pitch . |
| 12 | Getting out her suitcase , and with her fury riding high , she began throwing her belongings into it — she was catching the first plane out of there ! |
| 13 | She was addressing a massive and gaudy macaw perched in the corner , side-facing her suspiciously . |
| 14 | Unwittingly she was operating the intermittent reinforcement principle in support of a bad habit ! |
| 15 | The last he saw , remembered of Phillis , she was eating a sweetened bun . |
| 16 | " I looked in the window once and she was eating a boiled egg , with another boiled egg in an egg-cup across the table from her . |
| 17 | Also she was eating a little hay in a half-hearted way . |
| 18 | She heard the lady 's voice but she had no idea what she was saying until a sharpness in Miss Beard 's tone signified that she was repeating the same remark . |
| 19 | She had come to painting late but after the exhibition of ‘ Angela ’ in 1900 , an Impressionistic portrait of a woman at a mantelpiece in a shimmering , full-skirted dress , she was made the first female member of the New English Art Club . |
| 20 | She was made an honorary member of the BA in 1987 . |
| 21 | She was experiencing no unwelcome change of consciousness , no lightness in the head . |
| 22 | Although she told me she was experiencing a certain amount of discomfort due to the condition of her appendix , and although she was not really looking forward to surgery and to the anaesthetic , none the less Kirsty seemed to have no more than the expected apprehension which would have been felt by anyone . |
| 23 | Both VLCCs and ULCCs were used , including the ill-fated Seawise Giant , at the time she was hit the largest ship afloat at 564,739 tonnes . |
| 24 | For another — she was remembering the familiar way in which Lubor had put his arm around her yesterday . |
| 25 | She was wearing a woollen cardigan , woollen |
| 26 | She was wearing a burgundy-coloured dress of fine corduroy and reminded me herself of foreign wine . |
| 27 | Beneath an open , high-necked , long-sleeved cotton dressing gown , she was wearing a simple white cotton nightdress , which stuck to her still damp body , and she smelt of soap and steam . |
| 28 | Underneath she was wearing a simple black swimsuit with a high neck and wide shoulder-straps . |
| 29 | She was wearing a simple shift , and he pulled it up around her waist . |
| 30 | He had forgotten that Marie was only a girl ; forgotten that she was wearing a ridiculous dressing-gown . |