Example sentences of "she was [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night , she was recovering at home . |
| 2 | Theda looked her over , and saw with satisfaction that she was sinking into slumber . |
| 3 | She was looking for help , advice , that sort of thing ? ’ |
| 4 | Leapor 's only way of striking back at her father to whom she was looking for support , was , by this reasoning , to write a poem as a cathartic fantasy . |
| 5 | Or that , getting on , she was looking for adventure , a final fling ? |
| 6 | I remember seeing one and one she was pushing in front in the in the |
| 7 | She was grinning from ear to ear , her eyes sparkling in excited anticipation , like a child watching magicians at a carnival . |
| 8 | He laughed in agreement , thinking she was speaking in irony ; then he realized she was not . |
| 9 | She was functioning on instinct alone . |
| 10 | Photographers — cochons ! she was thinking in disgust . |
| 11 | Then he realized she was referring to sex . |
| 12 | The height of absurdity was reached in a case where the wife of a race-horse owner pictured with a woman he had described to the photographer as his fiancee , was allowed to recover damages on the basis that her neighbours would think she was living in sin . |
| 13 | Speaking on Sky News on the anniversary of her husband 's death , Mrs Maxwell , 71 , also denied that she was living in luxury while victims of Maxwell 's pensions ' funds plundering faced penury . |
| 14 | She did n't want Roman thinking she was angling for sympathy . |
| 15 | She was shivering with delight and pent-up desire . |
| 16 | She was shivering with fear , yet her lip curled in a snarl , I whispered , ‘ Come , Sorrel ’ , and she immediately ran towards us . |
| 17 | Like the horse , she was shivering with reaction and her legs simply gave way beneath her . |
| 18 | But soon after she was writhing in agony , her muscles racked with pain . |
| 19 | Maxim looked back expressionless knowing she was babbling from nervousness knowing his own stolid attitude was nervousness too . |
| 20 | She was taking in canvas . |
| 21 | She was gasping for air , then her throat seized closed and she fainted . |
| 22 | She was riding around town looking for George on his Bay Horse to hear of his encounter with the Dragon . |
| 23 | I wondered , therefore , why she was insisting on silence . |
| 24 | Then , with great bravado , she attacked the pile of pine-needles , scooping them up between the giant clutch of her karaso and her own small hand , depositing them in another heap that she was building on top of the rope . |
| 25 | Because she was staying at home with her father Eva had the task of sorting out her mother 's possessions and sharing them with the family . |
| 26 | But she was lacking in self-confidence when she should have had lots . |
| 27 | But she was laying in bed listening to them last night were n't you ? |
| 28 | She was laying in bed . |
| 29 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 30 | Then suddenly she was listening with attention again . |