Example sentences of "she be [verb] on the " in BNC.
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1 | How difficult it was to try to keep her feet on the ground , when inside she felt as if she were poised on the brink of a wild and wonderful adventure . |
2 | And then the silence of the hillside was rent by a further sound , a high buzzing at first like a gigantic and enraged wasp , and then a roar and a rending of the air , so that Molly felt as though she were standing on the bridge of a warship and some huge Exocet missile was being hurled in her direction . |
3 | She felt as though she were standing on the edge of a great chasm , with him on the other side urging her to jump across to him . |
4 | she 's laying on the bottom going , but I did n't move her cos it |
5 | And Miss Rene 's retort was very sharp as she said , ‘ I 'll do that after she 's tried on the brown leghorn or the mink-coloured felt . |
6 | Yes I am the outcome of it all is that she 's waiting on the wall , getting piles and I 'm going to go down the shop with her . |
7 | She 's travelling on the same train as you , but do n't fall in love with her . ’ |
8 | She 's going on the machine . |
9 | She 's lying on the bed , blowing smoke at the ceiling . |
10 | She 's slept so well for two nights , even though she 's sleeping on the floor of the hospital . |
11 | I I have n't contacted only from what who er Granville said so I picked up the communion the straight away and then I could n't and she 's coming on the or that Sunday the first |
12 | NOT only does the woman in the new Spennymoor town centre sculpture look like she 's sitting on the toilet , and the greyhound look like a ferret or a sausage , someone said but when they went to erect the blessed thing last week it did n't fit the space available . |
13 | By now , she 's sitting on the floor , thoroughly chatty . |
14 | Now she is standing on the edge of a deep bowl or crater , floored with the little rings across which the dragonriders are already strolling with a pendulum gait . |
15 | Nibbling at her lunchtime sandwiches , she is perched on the edge of a chair by a window overlooking Williamson Square , high in the Playhouse heavens . |
16 | The reason that the buyer selects a packet labelled , say , ‘ cocoa ’ from the shelf is that she wants cocoa and she is relying on the description ‘ cocoa ’ accurately to identify the packet and its contents . |
17 | He gave France stronger armed forces , insisted that she be respected on the world stage and believed that she must rely on her own resources for survival . |
18 | She was built on the Selina model , with several dirty-minded enlargements , the emphasis all on protuberance , convexity . |
19 | While in Athens she had got her hall-porter to place a successful bet for her on a horse called Beethoven , and I am sure she was acting on the best information that was to be had . |
20 | She was acting on the advice of her therapist in speaking thus . |
21 | Embarrassed both by her comments and by the expression on her face , Seb squeezed the hand she was resting on the cart in front of her . |
22 | Of course she was drinking on the sly , her and her precious friend … |
23 | ‘ Fred ’ as she was called on the circuit , played no less than 26 Federation and Wightman Cup rubbers for Britain , before directing her sporting talents , in a competitive sense , increasingly towards golf to which she had been introduced by her devoted husband Keith , himself a former leading British tennis junior . |
24 | She was featured on the back cover of the Spring edition of Assay . |
25 | Mother took books and crayons and accompanied Susan while she was seated on the lavatory , encouraging and talking to her about doing her ‘ poo ’ in it . |
26 | When she was seated on the sofa with a glass of brandy , he spoke . |
27 | She was seated on the Woolpack which was tied like a saddle to her Grey Horse . |
28 | So er , she phoned the corporation and she asked the man , to , to say she was leaving on the Saturday morning and were they , were they gon na come and er ba er what wi , er , bar up the windows ? |
29 | and then she was girning on the phone because |
30 | Do you wan na hear erm do you wan na hear Fiona singing ? she was singing on the mike , she was singing yeah really singing you know . |