Example sentences of "she [is] [adv] [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 2 | But er I I hope that I mean Shirley as she is she 's not cooking but she will cook |
| 3 | And that often also means paying for your ex-wife if she 's not working or does n't earn very much . |
| 4 | if she 's not doing that she 's winding wool ready , she does |
| 5 | She 's not coming and that 's final ! |
| 6 | I think she 's right saying that er er watch that off |
| 7 | She said she 's always complaining and criticising it 's quite funny though but there you go . |
| 8 | And there 's not a lot of co-ordination between what she 's currently doing and what the children did last year , or what they will do with another teacher next . |
| 9 | She is either lying or crazy , he reasons , believing that Martin was incapable of such alien behaviour . |
| 10 | Surely she is not suggesting that only her side of the case should have been put . |
| 11 | But at moment she is n't working but she said |
| 12 | She stands for the civilization of the South , of the Midi , the home of the troubadours , against the sterner , rougher , cruder world of the North , represented , in this image , by her husband , the King of the North Wind , whose authority she is subtly undermining and against whom she will soon break out in open rebellion . |
| 13 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 14 | She in turn may hope that in time she will get the caring response she is really seeking and will pursue the pattern . |
| 15 | She is back in the house that she is always remembering and talking endlessly about , she has her precious Miss Cress . |