Example sentences of "she was [verb] [art] " 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 | She sounded as though she was stating a fact . |
| 4 | By now , with the termination of Mr M 's role as tutor to the girl who refused to go to school , she was receiving no education at all . |
| 5 | In an unguarded moment , Iris had let drop that , while Bonard was paying her expenses , she was receiving no fee to run the course . |
| 6 | She twirled slowly , feeling his eyes on her so that it was as though she was receiving an injection of adrenalin . |
| 7 | As the narrator explained that ‘ Jane would soon have to move on ’ , because she was reaching the limit of her maximum stay in the council-owned hostel , we watched her rinse the sink , wipe the draining board and hang up the dishcloth . |
| 8 | Furthermore , she was reaching the point when she knew she could n't go on working with Beatrice and the others , deceiving them with her wrong-doings . |
| 9 | She was breaking an egg into a curl of boiling , salty water — the top of the big coal range glowed under a copper saucepan . |
| 10 | The broadcast brought an instant response from Gloucestershire Environmental Health Officers , who visited Mrs Stainton Kelly and warned she was breaking the law : |
| 11 | The broadcast brought an instant response from Gloucestershire Environmental Health Officers , who visited Mrs Stainton Kelly and warned she was breaking the law : |
| 12 | Miss Giles had earlier told Wells Street magistrates that she had not considered the film to be ‘ a very hot potato ’ and had not realised she was breaking the law when she showed it to about 120 people last April . |
| 13 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 14 | She was causing a stir in the yard , too , upsetting some folks , while making others laugh . |
| 15 | I 'm still not sure whether it was right or wrong , but it certainly got the reaction that was necessary that people appreciated that she was there , she was the Minister for Employment , and indeed she was causing a hell of a lot of problems for G M B members . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | While she was framing a question that would not sound insultingly doubtful , Raffaella went on telling her story . |
| 18 | She was clutching a large handbag on her lap as if it was a shield . |
| 19 | As well as the two vases and the cake stand , she was clutching the remnants of the shrivelled flowers . |
| 20 | Getting hold of Clarissa , wherever she was entertaining the troops and having her transported to London , was apparently no more than a mild challenge . |
| 21 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 22 | She was using a boot or shoe . |
| 23 | ‘ One time , back in the Metaltronix days , I got a call from a violinist who was in one of the Philharmonic orchestras , and she was using a Perfect Connection preamp for her electric violin . |
| 24 | She was using a French passport and the name Marcelle Fayette . |
| 25 | She was using the man 's death to work at his sympathy . |
| 26 | And in this last day , she must have been camping about , I do n't know how , but somehow she was traversing I she probably did n't she was using the living room as a store , I could only think that , she could n't possibly live in it . |
| 27 | He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ? |
| 28 | She was looking a bit like she had the morning of her hysterectomy . |
| 29 | ‘ Not in that respect , but I did think she was looking a lot older . ’ |
| 30 | She left her office with the uncomfortable feeling that Jimmy , who missed nothing , had noticed that she was looking a little flushed . |