Example sentences of "what she was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith thought crossly , and felt quite annoyed that Rosemary 's father was clearly asking her what she was calling for . |
| 2 | It did n't move but Thomas could clearly see what she was pointing at . |
| 3 | He remembered what she was wearing at the disco on Saturday : a slippery , silver sort of dress that flowed around her body like oil . |
| 4 | I was also diverted , watching the film on video , by what she was writing on her official papers . |
| 5 | The last few hours had so driven my off-duty life from my mind that , momentarily , I had no idea what she was getting at . |
| 6 | Then she quashed the thought ; naturally he would pretend to be surprised , to have no idea of what she was getting at . |
| 7 | what she was getting at , she knew exactly what she was shopping for , she went into that shop , there was the list , it was handed in , I bet it took her less time to shop then , than it did later when she went shopping with a vague idea well I must n't forget this , I must n't forget that , but then the wandering around sort of oh that looks nice and I fancy that |
| 8 | She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised breathlessly , so bemused by that time that she had n't a clue what she was apologising for . |
| 10 | Vivienne Westwood , current British Designer of the Year , had a very clear idea of what she was looking for : ‘ Something unorthodox that people have n't seen before . |
| 11 | She had had every opportunity to be , for heaven 's sake , but she 'd never worked hard enough at it and now she did not feel like struggling with a foreign language to search for an item when she did not even know what she was looking for . |
| 12 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 13 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 14 | Kattina was anything but tidy , and she found what she was looking for under a pile of underwear . |
| 15 | Because she was n't sure what she was looking for . |
| 16 | The dark red and damson robes were heavy and stifling and they could not possibly be what she was looking for . |
| 17 | She had deliberately not revealed what she was looking for , and so insisted on evacuating every office before she began work . |
| 18 | After a moment , she seemed to find what she was looking for and stepped up to the door . |
| 19 | She was n't entirely sure what she was looking for but she remembered what Amy had said about her husband 's church in one of the group sessions at St Sylvester 's . |
| 20 | There was much more of the same but it was not long before she found what she was looking for . |
| 21 | I do n't know what she was looking for , but she did n't see me . |
| 22 | She had no idea what she was looking for . |
| 23 | A quick anxious look behind her and she found what she was looking for . |
| 24 | Do n't know what she was looking at . |
| 25 | She saw what she was searching for — the deep love she had once known before . |
| 26 | As she slept in her Italian-designed tube steel bed with the iron-grey duvet , she felt sure that Steve in the room across the corridor must know who was in there with her , and as she went to work next day , she felt sure that everyone must see what she was dragging with her . |
| 27 | Then wondered what she was thinking of . |
| 28 | Marian was deep in thought but what she was thinking about she hardly knew : only that there was distance and stillness all around her and that the forest seemed to be watching her , and waiting for something to happen . |
| 29 | Lili looked thoughtful , but I did n't know what she was thinking about . |
| 30 | What she was thinking about was her own changed character . |