Example sentences of "she be standing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He undressed her equally slowly , and she felt as though she were standing outside herself , watching almost with detachment as he exposed her breasts to his gaze and slowly lowered his head until his mouth could touch one rosy peak . |
| 2 | And then the silence of the hillside was rent by a further sound , a high buzzing at first like a gigantic and enraged wasp , and then a roar and a rending of the air , so that Molly felt as though she were standing on the bridge of a warship and some huge Exocet missile was being hurled in her direction . |
| 3 | She felt as though she were standing on the edge of a great chasm , with him on the other side urging her to jump across to him . |
| 4 | And she felt , though comfortable in bed , as if she were standing with the rain sluicing all over her , streaming soothing over her breasts and down her thighs , warm and comforting and she hoped that he was not in difficulties on the road and that he was thinking about the rain . |
| 5 | With his eyes closed he could see her as clearly as if she were standing in front of him . |
| 6 | She 's standing with her back to the window and I can see a sort of thin blue light round her body . |
| 7 | go down and meet the bus so we 're sat there now ten past eleven and I thought I hope we have n't missed it now and she 's walked up , she 's standing out the door cos I 'd locked the door . |
| 8 | Now she is standing on the edge of a deep bowl or crater , floored with the little rings across which the dragonriders are already strolling with a pendulum gait . |
| 9 | The original Liberal Democrat candidate , Pamela Beasley , 47 , a local councillor , was de-selected following allegations of theft and she is standing as an independent under a People 's Party flag . |
| 10 | She is standing in a solitary shaft of heavenly light , her smile willing me to win . |
| 11 | She sighs , and sometimes she hums a little , and then she is silent because she is standing by the window looking out on the yard and turning the rings on her finger round and round . |
| 12 | Mrs Barzach will have a much more difficult time retaining her seat in the 15th arrondissement of Paris , which she has represented for only the past three years and where she is standing against the well-established local RPR mayor ( and deputy mayor of the capital ) . |
| 13 | Her face was red with emotion and she was standing with her head poked angrily forward . |
| 14 | The Jaguar pulled out towards where she was standing with Cy McCray . |
| 15 | She was standing with a tray of cool drinks . |
| 16 | She was standing with her back to me , talking with Walt and another guy . |
| 17 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 18 | ‘ I could ring for a taxi , ’ she suggested , when the final guests had departed and she was standing with her host and hostess on the drive . |
| 19 | She understood she was standing on the pavement with people walking past , the traffic rushing up and down had been standing there , stock-still , for how long ? |
| 20 | Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland . |
| 21 | But then she was standing on sand again , with a grey mist all round her , and the melancholy cry of gulls echoing distantly . |
| 22 | She looked almost as if she was standing on the surface itself , although Pete knew that there were rocks and shallows and that the effect was no more than illusion . |
| 23 | When he came in to find her , she was standing on her head in a sexy leotard , legs provocatively parted . |
| 24 | She was standing on the tree that had crashed across the fence , looking like a garden plant in need of marriage guidance . |
| 25 | And so one minute she was standing on deck in the rush of bright wind , the next minute the motor launch was scything across their bows . |
| 26 | Alexandra stood up , found she was standing on her own hem , bobbed a little to release herself and confronted a large , commanding woman pulling off brown suede gloves . |
| 27 | The road suddenly appeared through the thinning trees and Jenna had to scramble down a bank , cross a ditch and she was standing on the firm tarmac of the main highway . |
| 28 | She was standing on the pavement waiting to cross the road . |
| 29 | Yet , looking into those liquid dark eyes , Fran could n't help the sudden feeling that she was standing on the verge of something so mind-blowing that it made her afraid . |
| 30 | It went against the grain to meekly obey , but the look in his eyes told her in no uncertain terms that she was standing on the edge of a minefield . |