Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | For while your granny may have been content to envelope herself in a cloud of ‘ Tweed ’ each and every morning of her life — never daring to deviate from her ‘ trademark ’ perfume for so much as tea with the vicar — most of us , today , possess a positive wardrobe of perfumes to play with . |
| 2 | In 1982 , she joined Guangming Ribao as a reporter , becoming known for her writings on women 's issues and her interviews with leading intellectuals . |
| 3 | What crass hypocrisy , pretending to worry about her career when she had been instrumental in its destruction ! |
| 4 | She was looking looking looking looking through her tights |
| 5 | So many times she had felt as if he had just steamrollered his way right over her , refusing to listen to her arguments , just using his overpowering physical and mental strength to get his own way . |
| 6 | Jennifer had finished her shopping and , pausing to look at her watch , realised that she had time for a coffee before her train left . |
| 7 | She wrote that note while pretending to look in her handbag . |
| 8 | The girl from Camberwell , who police are refusing to name at her parents ' request , did not know her attacker . |
| 9 | The hollow sounds of doors banging and footsteps receding echoed in her ears as she stepped inside the sparsely furnished room . |
| 10 | As the high points of last night 's blustering and boasting passed through her mind one by one , she groaned aloud . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd like to take it , ’ she made up her mind on the spot , not wanting to return to her larger flat and start to have doubts . |
| 12 | There were garments half-made and for mending bunched beneath her belt again , though she wore dresses now . |
| 13 | With a heavy sigh , and not even daring to look at her slim , almost naked form in the mirror , Laura slowly made her way out of the cottage , and down towards the ocean . |
| 14 | Then I 'm going to take another triangular bandage and I 'm going to open it up and make just a little fold , this is going to go on her forehead and that little fold just helps with keeping it firm and stopping the bandage slip , now , just put it around the forehead like that , okay ? |
| 15 | She used to ask my mother too , endlessly attempting to work upon her soft-heartedness , whenever she so much as had a headache . |
| 16 | Why was her pulse galloping , as if her heart were surely going to leap from her breast ? |
| 17 | ‘ If she thinks we 're going to stand for her having tea while our homes are dug up and flung about , she 's got another think coming ! ’ |
| 18 | If you were going to worry about her feelings you would n't have started the affair in the first place . ’ |
| 19 | She sounded tense , and a little disbelieving that she was actually going to talk to her father . |
| 20 | ‘ Otherwise what 's she going to do with her time , poor girl ? |
| 21 | There 's one scene of four minutes where every third or fourth sentence is ‘ What about the cases ? ’ , referring to what Rita 's character was going to do with her baggage , and it changes so that each person is saying it with a different meaning . |
| 22 | That he was going to barge into her bedroom and reveal some deeply untrustworthy side to his personality ? |
| 23 | Tomorrow , she promised — not of course that Ven was likely to want to accompany her anywhere for a third day in a row — but tomorrow she would insist on going sightseeing on her own . |
| 24 | But the next day Basil 's parents explained that she was going to live with her uncle in Yorkshire , in the north of England . |
| 25 | She says she 's going to live with her brother and she 'll have sleep on the sofa . |
| 26 | If your elderly parent is faced with this problem , the most sensible first step towards a solution will be for her to spend a longish ‘ holiday ’ in your home before making a final decision , or for you to make an extended ‘ visit ’ to her if you are thinking of going to live in her home . |
| 27 | Liz had continued to live at home with her parents , but she was now thinking about going to stay with her brother and his wife for a few weeks . |
| 28 | She was going to stay in her profession and concentrate her energies on what she knew best . |
| 29 | Four weeks pregnant , she was standing in line waiting to pay for her first maternity dress when things began to go wrong . |
| 30 | there 's any chance of picking them up here , said otherwise I 'm going to have to her take Alex late . |