Example sentences of "she [be] [verb] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Nicola smiled , as if she were catching Helen out in some childishly transparent ruse .
2 Perhaps someone 's still there , or she 's tucking Darius up in bed .
3 We 're just playing with twelve pennies and she 's making patterns out of them to make multiplication tables
4 She 's having Sunday off .
5 I despise your grandmother for what she did — for what she 's put Corosini through .
6 And the marriage is likely to be far happier than if she is working flat out while she is at home and blaming her husband for giving her no help .
7 She was to pick Emma up from school at half past three … .
8 But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary .
9 She was enjoying being back in control .
10 She was taking crates out of her car ; Flavia gave her a hand .
11 And the fact that she was taking time off with her dyke lover offered more flexibility , more opportunities for invention .
12 It was as though she was accruing power over against Edward 's earlier impossible behaviour , against my possible disbelief .
13 So I sat down on a chair that stood by the counter and looked around the shop while waiting for Mary to emerge from behind the colourful painted screen where she was trying things on .
14 She was holding Laura up , because if she 'd let Laura go she would have slumped to the ground .
15 She was watching Edward out of the corner of her eye .
16 But she was marrying Changez out of perversity , I was sure of it .
17 Her mother would have been happier if she had seen her walking or going off swimming , but after all , she was resting and that 's what she had brought her here for , and perhaps she was turning things over in her mind .
18 I do n't want to know , I wo n't know said Sally as she put her hands put out her hands as if she was fending Daryl off , I hate you Daryl Rivers , you with , you with your mother who comes to see you often , sends you things and writes you long letters and comes to see you .
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