Example sentences of "she was [v-ing] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hands , already shaking , had become even less steady , causing the egg she was breaking to miss the hotplate and fall on to the red embers below . |
| 2 | She was struggling to reach the bell under her desk top . |
| 3 | She was struggling to cut the meat into what the book described as bite-size chunks when Edward appeared at the kitchen door . |
| 4 | As she wrung out a cloth which she was using to mop the floor Diana joked : ‘ Beryl , I doubt it . |
| 5 | He leant right across the table now , to push Annie 's spoon back to her , and Carolyn put down the apple she was peeling to stroke the hollow in the back of his neck . |
| 6 | She was learning to recognize the effect she had on men , and to her surprise she saw the hint of desire creep into his gaze . |
| 7 | ‘ She was helping to entertain the princes ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'm sure she wrote everything from the ‘ What 's On in Stoke Newington ’ column to the reports of the Council 's planning committee meetings with equal sincerity , convinced she was helping to change the world . |
| 9 | If the prophecy worried her , she was managing to conceal the fact . |
| 10 | Having caught the left rough off the tee , she was shaping to hit the kind of second shot over trees and lakes which would have had Laura Davies drooling . |
| 11 | She was getting to know the way his mind worked . |
| 12 | She was beginning to tackle the problem in her quietly determined way , by suggesting a movie or a shopping trip to one or two of the quieter girls in the nurses ' home , and by spending more time chatting with her patients instead of being simply a sympathetic presence . |
| 13 | But subconsciously her mind was at work , and by the time she had garaged the car she was beginning to comprehend the appalling enormity of her mistake . |
| 14 | Isabel had to admit he was not messenger material , but she was beginning to question the wisdom of her panicked flight from the castle . |
| 15 | But it had n't , not completely , and now she was beginning to have the feeling that all of the best chances had been narrowly missed and the whole thing was now starting to come apart again . |
| 16 | She was beginning to experience the soloist 's panic of realizing that the success of the show rested on her shoulders . |
| 17 | She said she thought she was beginning to get the hang of it . |
| 18 | He looked even more puzzled but Pascoe could see from Alice 's face that she was beginning to get the picture . |
| 19 | It was a surprise to find that she was beginning to feel the same way about it herself . |
| 20 | She was beginning to feel the pain he suffered . |
| 21 | She was beginning to feel the faith trickle out of her . |
| 22 | She was wanting to describe the nature of the malai government but did n't want to use the first words which came to mind , which were ‘ military dictatorship ’ . |
| 23 | The Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , said she was trying to defend the indefensible . |
| 24 | She was trying to grasp the radically changed situation with which she must come to terms . |
| 25 | This made her late with the lunch , and at the table she found the young men impossible to talk to because she was trying to retain the lines of what she had prepared to say . |
| 26 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 27 | But Jack knew she was trying to banish the car from her mind . |
| 28 | France 's lawyer James Ramsden told Chelmsford Crown Court : ‘ She was trying to buy the love and affection of her husband . ’ |
| 29 | She did n't really notice him , for she was trying to avoid the approach of a loiterer . |
| 30 | But he also gives you a feeling that she was trying to show the difference good and evil , in other words , Jane refused to hate her but she did hate her . |