Example sentences of "she was [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 With her uplifted left foot she was shoving the next foster mother square in the mouth .
2 She was organising the next bout , to take place soon after the election , shortly before she died .
3 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 .
4 She was looking the other way and did n't see me . ’
5 She was seeking the next angle , the next approach , knowing that she 'd have at the most a couple of minutes to make her pitch .
6 Getting out her suitcase , and with her fury riding high , she began throwing her belongings into it — she was catching the first plane out of there !
7 Unwittingly she was operating the intermittent reinforcement principle in support of a bad habit !
8 She heard the lady 's voice but she had no idea what she was saying until a sharpness in Miss Beard 's tone signified that she was repeating the same remark .
9 For another — she was remembering the familiar way in which Lubor had put his arm around her yesterday .
10 She was wearing the dark green woollen dress that showed off her still remarkable contours .
11 She was wearing the dumb preppie blouse her mother liked her to put on for school and , of course , the Iron Maiden .
12 She was wearing the blue and green dress and it suited her every bit as well Claudia had thought it would .
13 Miss Pamela Lyall , who sat beside him and talked carelessly , represented the modern school of thought in that she was wearing the barest minimum of clothing on her sun-browned person .
14 She was wearing the white apron she had for cookery classes at school and was tidying up the house because the doctor was coming .
15 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 .
16 She was wearing the same sort of leather harness that the dragonriders had been wearing , but in her case it was much briefer .
17 She was reading the Daily Telegraph .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Blaise Cendrars witnessed a fight in which she was getting the better of Modigliani .
22 Several times , Bernice thought she was getting the better of him , only to realise that he was toying with her expectations and reactions .
23 Sucking in a shaky breath , aware she was taking the greatest gamble of her life , she returned to face him .
24 She was taking the eight-to eleven-year-olds .
25 She could n't quite believe she was taking the first few tentative steps back towards her marriage .
26 It was late in the day and she was taking the last of the sun .
27 Lisa Isherwood of Wales sustained a broken leg during a Home International foursomes tie against Scotland , after she slipped and fell on wet ground as she was leaving the 8th green .
28 And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note .
29 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 .
30 It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day .
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