Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [v-ing] she [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Any minute and he would be inviting her through to the bedroom and urging her to call him Alexander !
2 She put her hand down to push him away and he grabbed it , squeezing it around the erect penis and forcing her to rub it up and down .
3 ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl .
4 And in that twilight world between waking and sleeping she saw that it was a face she knew , her own .
5 His wife Aileen came in with pails of milk , scolding at two little girls for clinging onto her skirt and making her spill .
6 She had sat on the seat cover , resting her head on the porcelain of the washbasin , licking dry lips and bringing her breathing down .
7 I try yelling in a Rasta 's earhole while waving her snap in front of his eyes .
8 Jackson 's pop singing sister Latoya was quoted on Friday as saying she had warned her brother months ago to end his friendships with young boys .
9 Me and my big mouth , eh ? ’ she said , lowering her gaze and wishing she knew when to hold her tongue .
10 I was really enjoying my new status as a mother and being at home and caring for Danielle and watching her grow and learn was all I wanted to do for the rest of my life .
11 She was in her bedroom on Saturday morning making a list of the errands and shopping she had to do when she became aware of an excited chattering in the courtyard below her window .
12 Carrie felt as if she were falling through space ; falling and falling with the air pressing her chest and making her gasp .
13 They took the form of both the grandmother and father doubting the decision and persuading her to change her mind ; and from medical advisors and social workers seeking to persuade her to keep the child .
14 The shots , which were widely reprinted in the Allied press , showed a relaxed General listening to his wife play the piano or watching her knit .
15 Getting hold of Clarissa , wherever she was entertaining the troops and having her transported to London , was apparently no more than a mild challenge .
16 Who delivered the message at Kinghorn gate , a letter to the Queen saying the King could be arriving that evening and telling her to instruct the purveyor to have horses at Inverkeithing , particularly his favourite , the white Tamesin ?
17 Instead his mouth pressed against the soft cotton , tracing the outline of her body and making her shudder .
18 She was desperate to move now , physical awareness returning suddenly to her body and making her realise that she was numb in her left leg and stiff everywhere else .
19 It was a relief to see Sophia standing in the window of the vicarage drawing room and beckoning her to come in .
20 A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above .
21 I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done .
22 A SEX monster battered a 14-year-old girl before dumping her in a freezing gravel pit and leaving her to drown .
23 The experiment consisted of presenting an unseen passage of text to a person and asking her to guess one letter at a time .
24 I saw her twice between that Friday in Bamford and seeing her silhouetted on the blind on Christmas Day . ’
25 Testing is carried out by presenting the student with a new example of the concept and asking her to identify it .
26 Sometimes it 's worth going away for a while and letting her think she 's beaten you , and then coming back with the food a few hours later .
27 A sharp cold wind had sprung up with the fading light , removing the sweaty warmth of her exertions and letting her know that she was cold and exhausted .
28 The office drivers buying her fierce Singha beer and teaching her to dance the Ramwong , and her library assistants taking her to markets and on river trips , bringing her sticky cakes and jasmine garlands and inviting her to their homes .
29 Taking a deep breath and straightening her slumping shoulders , she pushed open the back door of the colonel 's house , and as she saw the dim light from the lounge spilling out into the hall she walked in that direction .
30 Germany interpreted her constitution as forbidding her to participate in the military operation , and Belgium refused to sell ammunition to the British army .
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