Example sentences of "she [be] [v-ing] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's ringing me on Wednesday to tell me when she 's gon na collect them . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's taking me to the Tower of London . |
| 3 | Well I do n't know , but she , I said , cos she 's telling me about her coming , only three days up the hospital then she 's got ta go back to her own place because Ian said she 'd never managed , she keeps falling and she said this woman never went to see her once when she was in hospital , yet she 's getting paid it look all the time , and she ought to go to see if there 's anything she wants you see |
| 4 | And er she says like when I think of me keeping her child overnight and all before it 's in hospital and running down to hospital three or four times when he was in the hospital , and taking him sweets and all , and she says she 's treating me like shit . |
| 5 | If she 's not polishing the auld bits and pieces , she 's naggin' me for new curtains ! ’ |
| 6 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 7 | She 's turning me into a wild animal . |
| 8 | She will think she is losing me for ever . |
| 9 | Now she was accusing me in front of a stranger . |
| 10 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 11 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 12 | While she was helping me into yet another nightshirt , we talked . |
| 13 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 14 | She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train . |
| 15 | I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good . |
| 16 | When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile . |
| 17 | I wondered what Connie Fraser thought about living in a place like that , and whether she was watching me from one of the dozens of balcony windows that faced the front . |
| 18 | She was telling me about Uncle Titch . ’ |
| 19 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 20 | So well , I always remember it cos my missus was in the White Hart , she was telling me about it . |
| 21 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 22 | We were sitting there and she was telling me about Brian . |
| 23 | She and er she was telling me about David 's mama , she said David 's mama |
| 24 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
| 25 | Towards the end of the thirteen-year marriage she was treating me as if I was someone the cat had brought home . |
| 26 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 27 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |
| 28 | I 've put in stuff for her from all over , and she always thanks me , not like she was paying me at all . |
| 29 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 30 | But he said , I said it as a joke when she was asking me about my flying and I said I do n't do as much flying as I 'd like to , I 've , I 've got a wife to support and she takes all the money . |