Example sentences of "and she [verb] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit , and she began panting as if she 'd just run the four-minute mile . |
2 | She washed quickly , the water barely lukewarm , but the tepid water helped clear her muzzy head , and she began running through her plans for the day — if she kept herself busy she could avoid the drink . |
3 | And we si and we sing it upstairs and she goes wandering up the stairs and we hide in the airing cupboard ! |
4 | ’ He gave a sob , ‘ and she went rattling down the stairs to her room the way she always did and then I heard that awful sort of slither and Bunty 's scream … ’ |
5 | But she spoke of and she kept speaking about him being |
6 | One had a hearing aid and she kept fiddling with it . |
7 | She was gon na and she kept saying about |
8 | She had shown Cheryl little ways that would help her to remember the semaphore letters and she practised signalling with her . |
9 | and then he said something about do us cart one and a half cartwheels and end up in a crab or something , and she come flying across the room at me and I felt this foot go shwoo |
10 | And she come knocking for me about two month 's later . |
11 | Ruth never felt that she was good at it , but it made a change , and she enjoyed listening to her mistress 's accounts of her days . |
12 | Then she gets in the back bedroom , we got a mirror at the back there what was took off one the dressing tables , and she sits and looks at herself in there and she keeps going like that |
13 | she 's going , erm because he , he does n't do anything , yeah , and she 's going oh I suppose any other girl would dump you ages ago , you do n't know how lucky you are , she just so nice , blah , blah , blah , blah , and he , I say it was so funny and she start shouting at him , that 's why he was trying to go oh shut up |
14 | The strain provoked leaks in the hull and she started taking in water , but not seriously at first . |
15 | Suddenly Mozart seemed too busy and clever , and she started sorting in the cupboard under the turntable until she found a record of Papillons , and lay back surrounded by Schumann 's fluttering primary colours . |
16 | All these men started dancing with her and she could n't believe it and she started dancing with them , right . |
17 | and she started talking about putting the freezer in the back garden |
18 | Somewhere above , Folly heard footsteps , and she started edging towards the van . |
19 | For a while she managed to swim , but eventually she grew tired and her mouth filled with water , and she sank choking beneath the waves … |
20 | He pulled at his Mum 's coat and she stopped talking for a minute . |
21 | There was a ‘ Sold ’ sticker on the board , and she stood gazing at it for a moment as though it might provide a magic solution to all her problems . |
22 | 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 . |