Example sentences of "she [was/were] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , there are many loopholes in the legislation ; for instance , until very recently a woman could only claim equal pay if she were doing the identical work of a man and , since occupations are typically segregated by sex , it is often difficult to find such a comparable man . |
| 2 | It was also reported that a new chapter in Andrew Morton 's controversial biography of the Princess would include details of a letter from the Duke warning her of the damage she was causing the Royal Family . |
| 3 | She was looking the other way and did n't see me . ’ |
| 4 | Unwittingly she was operating the intermittent reinforcement principle in support of a bad habit ! |
| 5 | For another — she was remembering the familiar way in which Lubor had put his arm around her yesterday . |
| 6 | She was wearing the dark green woollen dress that showed off her still remarkable contours . |
| 7 | She was wearing the dumb preppie blouse her mother liked her to put on for school and , of course , the Iron Maiden . |
| 8 | She was wearing the blue and green dress and it suited her every bit as well Claudia had thought it would . |
| 9 | She was wearing the white apron she had for cookery classes at school and was tidying up the house because the doctor was coming . |
| 10 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 11 | She was reading the Daily Telegraph . |
| 12 | She did not want to lose Paula , who was one of her best models , but already she was enjoying the reflected glory that came from having personally trained a house model for one of the great London couture houses . |
| 13 | Finally , when she was fastening the long row of buttons on a classic dark blue creation , her mother came in , her lovely calm as untouched as ever , as though missing daughters suddenly returning were quite a normal thing . |
| 14 | For example Mrs Snell , who was looking after her husband said that she could still manage to look after him at home ; she was doing a little more for him than last year because he was physically frailer and more uncooperative , but she was getting the right amount of help and was quite satisfied . |
| 15 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
| 16 | She was trying the black velvet ribbons behind her head when Lucenzo 's hand descended on one wrist violently . |
| 17 | Yes yesterday she was straining the boiling water off the potatoes . |
| 18 | She was watching the chief inspector 's face as she said it , and she knew that he believed her , and accepted her as a good witness . |
| 19 | She fell silent for a moment and I saw she was watching the long heaving waves slip past our flanks . |
| 20 | Cilla looked on , grinning as if she was watching the perfect Blind Date union . |
| 21 | But no , she was removing the blue drapery , and now , with that gone , what had seemed to be a popish image turned out to be merely a tree stump with a blue cloth spread over it to dry . |
| 22 | I mean , we did n't … he did n't … ’ she faltered , not at all sure she was telling the exact truth . |
| 23 | So she was pressing the wrong keys ; did it have to make such a racket ? |
| 24 | Our eyes were glued to the large plate into which she was placing the cooked ones . |
| 25 | But there was no stopping Charlotte and Ruth realised , as the words poured out of her , that she was releasing the pent-up feelings of many months . |
| 26 | He 'd thrown the receiver off the hook , but she was haranguing the empty line , demanding he reply . |
| 27 | She glanced down , to discover she was hugging the very edge of the mattress . |
| 28 | His mother was bending over the baby in the basketwork cradle his father had made for the first Wooldridge child , and she was mopping the fevered little body with a damp cloth . |
| 29 | Defries hardly noticed the lakes and the vegetation : she was studying the strange complex of structures that had been built on a vast slab of rock in the centre of the fertile valley . |
| 30 | When she reappeared , her bald head gleaming dully , her arms were extended and she was making the mooing noise again . |