Example sentences of "[prep] she [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I was worried about 'er chuckin' me out , I know she would n't do that , but it was only right after all . |
| 2 | Oh , no , never say that he did not like them , after all her hard work and the writing of them in the small hours after her demanding duties as a dogsbody had already tired her ! |
| 3 | Mark leapt in after her shouting commands and trying to cajole her back to shore , but she was n't listening . |
| 4 | A memorial service was held at Capel Tegid , the Welsh Presbyterian chapel at Bala , her native town to which she retired after her singing career . |
| 5 | The bitter sobbing which had consumed her immediately after her coming upstairs had stopped . |
| 6 | Miss Mates , who had followed young Eddie into the surgery , looked sadly after her departing treasure . |
| 7 | ‘ He has given us the feeling that we could not have been better prepared , ’ said Hockley after her opening round . |
| 8 | Instead of 'er keeping him young , she 's , he 's making her old . |
| 9 | Nell was sitting alone at a table in the dining car working on her interminable lists ( those usually clipped to the clipboard ) and I sat down opposite her feeling ashamed of myself . |
| 10 | He sat down opposite her sipping the brandy . |
| 11 | Such a summer now stared her in the face , for she had , through indecision , failed to fix herself up any foreign excursions ; she looked towards it and towards her approaching examinations , and felt sadly weak . |
| 12 | Hugh was coming towards her carrying their tall eldest , whose arms and legs fell haphazardly like a doll 's while a long strip of green weed circled her ankle . |
| 13 | She watched him walk back towards her raising his hat in greeting . |
| 14 | Aggie had taken her hat and coat off and had dropped on to the settle , and as he entered the room she said immediately , ‘ Somethin' will have to be … ’ but paused as Millie came in on Ben 's heels , and she nodded towards her saying , ‘ Go and take your things off and set the tray . ’ |
| 15 | She opened the heavy oak doors and the dogs swept past her bounding across the drive to their master who was opening up the car boot to remove his luggage . |
| 16 | In part , this was a consequence of her appointing some ministers who were sceptical of her economic strategy . |
| 17 | The young woman seemed to know what she was talking about , and Shelley suddenly felt sorry for her , in spite of her flashing Spanish beauty . |
| 18 | Val found one of her insisting words for Fergus too , one which was askew and inaccurate . |
| 19 | That , and the discovery that she could not bear a man near her in the early days after the rape ; so she had feigned an illness , explained as the consequence of her breaking her engagement with Havvie , which , of course , had caused an immense furore inside and outside of society , and Mama and Papa had put off their visit to England , and sent her loving letters , for she had written that she had discovered that she did not really love Havvie at all , had merely been beglamoured by his appearance , name and title . |
| 20 | I 've got photographs of her leaning on hay rakes with yokels in smocks , more or less . ’ |
| 21 | Then , to Perdita 's squirming embarrassment , he replayed the clip of her rowing with the umpire three times , freezing the frame of her yelling with her mouth wide open , until her teammates were howling with laughter and rolling round on the floor . |
| 22 | If there 's any likelihood of her regaining consciousness during the day , it will be worthwhile waiting here . ’ |
| 23 | He was still wary of her taking things amiss . |
| 24 | Her frequent thoughts of self-poisoning and the risk of her taking an overdose ( 3 months ) . |
| 25 | In addition there was a small risk of her taking an overdose . |
| 26 | They did n't like the idea of her taking this trip . |
| 27 | I could never stand the worry of her taking her wires off . |
| 28 | Just that first Botticelli moment of the first time of her taking her clothes off . |
| 29 | So the question of her taking a five-mile hike across what in parts was sometimes rough terrain would never have occurred . |
| 30 | ‘ I can understand it , even if I do n't like to think of her moving far away unless I get a personal recommendation about whoever takes her on . ’ |