Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [v-ing] she [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She grumbles a bit about me waking her up , but I do n't think she minds all that much . |
| 2 | Fei Yen bowed deeply , the two maids on either side of her copying her automatically . |
| 3 | He took her in his arms , holding her close in silence , the sheer size and warmth of him calming her very quickly . |
| 4 | She snuggled down and began to drift to sleep , memories of Alain holding her here as she wept on that first day , memories of him bringing her up to bed after he had kissed her in the kitchen , fluttering like moths in the light , easing her into sleep . |
| 5 | Her earliest memory was of him holding her tightly by the hand , when she was just a toddler , in case she strayed too near the rushing river . |
| 6 | Robyn thought , remembering the way she had flung herself out of the house , the agony of driving home , the touch and taste of him haunting her down every mile of motorway … the floods of tears … |
| 7 | Karen I I 'm forty-seven and I ca n't work me mother out , so , no chance for you working her out , few years you 've known her . |
| 8 | Instead practise what you preach : after all there 's no logic in you telling her not to hit people if that 's exactly what you 're doing . |
| 9 | He was beside her holding her up but she pushed him away . |
| 10 | She was going on to recall how yesterday she had thought of Vendelin Gajdusek 's being in Prague , when in actual fact , had she known it , he had been sitting right there beside her driving her back to Mariánské Láznë , when he suddenly gave her near heart failure by challenging , out of the blue ‘ I thought you said your name was Fabia ? ’ |