Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She met him emerging from their tall block of apartments as she was returning from work on the Friday evening , having stopped to buy groceries on the way home , her mind flying ahead to Luke 's arrival and all that she planned to say to him now that she had made up her mind to end their affair . |
| 2 | His mum was a big , volatile , typically Italian mamma who came to live in Britain in 1949 where she made her living as a cook for a medical family in North London until marrying Fred 's father who was Spanish . |
| 3 | Miss Merchiston went to the last door , thumped twice on it with her clenched fist as if by such violence she announced her coming , and threw it wide so that it bounced off the wall with a crash . |
| 4 | She wiped her dripping , hooked nose , clasped her hands together and cackled . |
| 5 | and er , anyway she got me walking out and she says er , see you when I come back , that was er about twenty past that was twenty past eleven was n't it ? |
| 6 | ‘ I did my teacher 's bit and told her to stay on until she got her leaving certificate . |
| 7 | She says she got little or no response when she reported her missing . |
| 8 | She says she got little or no response when she reported her missing . |
| 9 | SINGER Patty Smyth attacked two policeman after she caught them beating up a friend in New York . |
| 10 | Sometimes she caught him looking at her , but he never really kissed her and the vagueness of his attentions made her anxious and say bitter things she did n't mean . |
| 11 | She caught him looking . |
| 12 | From time to time she caught him looking at her , his expression unfathomable , and each time the tension in the cabin seemed to grow . |
| 13 | Several times she caught him looking at her unguardedly , and heat flared in his eyes , to be instantly banked as he brought it under control with his iron will . |
| 14 | He was not a man much given to talking , but there were times when she caught him glancing at her in a way that held its own silent eloquence . |
| 15 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 16 | She used the tone of voice she had used when he was little and she caught him doing something he had been expressly forbidden to do . |
| 17 | She described her working experience as ‘ worse than anything I had ever imagined ’ . |
| 18 | Leonora whirled round , flushing as she found him watching her from the doorway . |
| 19 | She found him looking at her a little too intently and lowered her gaze . |
| 20 | She examined Frankie from head to toe with prying eyes and searching , penetrating fingers ; and she found him lacking . |
| 21 | That afternoon , when she found him giving Huw Pritchard a boxing-lesson , she caught a glimpse of the old Connor — the man she loved , the man she had married . |
| 22 | When Mary came out , she found him standing still with his back to the sun , looking down the river towards the shady woodlands round Grandtully . |
| 23 | She found him standing in front of the fireplace , his eyes fixed on the clock . |
| 24 | She found him lying in a pool of blood in his cot . |
| 25 | She found him sitting up in bed , a score of his medical texts and notes scattered across the heavy coverlet . |
| 26 | So then she cut through the dining room and into the lounge , where she found him sitting in front of the big Sony TV . |
| 27 | When she got out of bed , she found him sitting on the top stair , listening to Dad and Mother downstairs in the kitchen , and crying . |
| 28 | She found her sitting on a bench beneath a stark tree in the college grounds , in a snowy landscape . |
| 29 | I explained the situation , after she found me jerking about on the bed one afternoon . |
| 30 | When Izzie came out , hearing voices , she found them drawing tally marks in the dust , counting up the number of different roles they could play between them . |