Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blushing furiously she turned away but still she felt the eyes of the Frenchman on her naked back . |
| 2 | I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand |
| 3 | She was drowning so she had |
| 4 | Another example of that , when a colleague of mine joined as a Trainee Manager , she was being shown round the branch by the Section and as they went , they were walking along she said oh this is the room and Susie thought , what 's it , a buff and she said that 's racking and Susie said what 's the overs racking . |
| 5 | She was too shaken with sobs to risk driving so she sat there for two hours weeping her heart out while neighbours and passers-by studiously ignored her obvious distress . |
| 6 | Before returning home she paid a private visit to Kentucky . |
| 7 | If she were her normal self she would be pottering happily around Simone , laughing whenever she got in her way and sticking her fingers in the food . |
| 8 | Driving back she scanned the fields , the forestry , the ditches at the sides of the road , anything but Leon Kennedy . |
| 9 | The Girl was explaining how she thought perhaps she ought to make some kind of thanks to them for their hospitality . |
| 10 | HE insisted that the Church has never ruled that a priest should not have sex , only that he should not marry , ’ says Monika ( sic ) Kocanek by way of explaining how she ended up in bed with Fr Christopher O'Neill and then found herself pregnant . |
| 11 | What was the point of denying how she felt ? |
| 12 | Next moment she was blundering towards the voice , blindly , hardly noticing when she stumbled ; she came to the hollow where the wrecked car lay , and saw a pale patch on the ground beside it . |
| 13 | Something uncompromising in Flora prevented her from understanding where she went wrong . |
| 14 | Explaining why she thought there were so few women in science , she said : |
| 15 | Looking down she expected to see blood , awfulness , something dead . |
| 16 | On listening harder she became certain the chant was ‘ Bony lady 's husband 's dead ’ . |
| 17 | Without looking up she said : ‘ I do n't know what you are getting at , Mr Wycliffe ; all this was a long time ago . ’ |
| 18 | And then she heard a gunshot and the sound of a horn , and looking back she saw , high on Ballymacadoyle Hill , her own father and brothers and a crowd of others too , and they were waving and shouting — and suddenly she understood exactly what was happening : they were giving her their last farewell ; she was leaving Ireland , and might never return . |
| 19 | For in looking back she underplayed the impact of feminist discourses on the repeal struggle . |
| 20 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 21 | Lord C had said she 'd borne them with stoicism , but looking back she realised she 'd been disappointed not to receive the whole dozen . |
| 22 | Elizabeth , watching , felt an unexpected sympathy for her , remembering how she had felt herself , with baby Alan in her arms and him not even hers . |
| 23 | Remembering how she had stood on the tower battlements the next morning , watching her knight ride away . |
| 24 | Meredith felt the memory freeze her bones , remembering how she 'd comforted her paralysed grandmother during the long wait for the ambulance , knowing this was her third heart attack . |
| 25 | She flushed now , remembering how she 'd realised last night that he must have returned without her hearing . |
| 26 | She did n't rush back to his table , but the next time she was passing by she stopped . |
| 27 | Lady Maude nodded , remarking how she had heard that Sir Ralph was a hard , cruel man . |
| 28 | She was just about to go inside again when over to her right , by the high stone wall that marked the boundary of the Roscarrock estate , she heard a single , high-pitched whistle , and looking round she saw a face observing her from the other side . |
| 29 | Without looking round she sped towards him , hearing the heavy feet running behind her . |
| 30 | Penelope hesitated , hardly remembering where she had been going . |