Example sentences of "she was [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had neutered the quick of mystery in platitude before , she was smothering it with symbols now . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps she was saving it for you . ’ |
| 3 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 4 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 5 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
| 6 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |
| 7 | I she was throwing it around Christmas Eve though were n't she ? |
| 8 | It was a song Mr Malik sang , and she was singing it to what must , surely , be his words . |
| 9 | She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her . |
| 10 | As she was replacing it with its fellows , a thought occurred to her , and she wondered why it had taken her so long to arrive at such an obvious conclusion . |
| 11 | She was lifting it into its accustomed place on the top of his bookcase when he came in . |
| 12 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 13 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
| 14 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 15 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 16 | Mummy dropped it when she was giving it to me . |
| 17 | Maggie had the greatest desire to answer in Spanish and confound him , but in the first place she was n't exactly up to it , and secondly she was keeping it under her hat . |
| 18 | she was doing it to Matt like that ! |
| 19 | She was doing it with her usual spare , economical elegance , but also with the air of one who would rather be doing something else . |
| 20 | But she was doing it for their child , and in order to make sure that Angel was happy she needed the Reverend Morey . |
| 21 | She was doing it for fun , a one-off comeback to the sport she had come to despise and walked out of five years ago . |
| 22 | And yet all her hard work has never been appreciated by those she was doing it for , her stepchildren . |
| 23 | She never would say why but I felt almost sure she was doing it against him , either to spite him or to gain his attention . |
| 24 | McLeish carried over a loaded tray , and ate ravenously , noting with interest that Catherine Crane had an equally good appetite , though it was not obvious where she was putting it on that slim frame . |
| 25 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |