Example sentences of "of she [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Instead of 'er keeping him young , she 's , he 's making her old .
2 That , and the discovery that she could not bear a man near her in the early days after the rape ; so she had feigned an illness , explained as the consequence of her breaking her engagement with Havvie , which , of course , had caused an immense furore inside and outside of society , and Mama and Papa had put off their visit to England , and sent her loving letters , for she had written that she had discovered that she did not really love Havvie at all , had merely been beglamoured by his appearance , name and title .
3 I could never stand the worry of her taking her wires off .
4 Just that first Botticelli moment of the first time of her taking her clothes off .
5 ‘ It was more a case of her seducing me .
6 Taken aback by her anger and foreseeing the likelihood of her leaving him on the strength of it , Jeremy switches tactics to conciliation .
7 That was the sole purpose of her leaving it to me . ’
8 Her success in this enterprise had fortified her in her career as psychotherapist , had given her confidence in her right to pursue it , in the rightness of her pursuing it .
9 There was no possibility of her reaching it .
10 Fei Yen bowed deeply , the two maids on either side of her copying her automatically .
11 Sandra is probably Robin 's most famous guest ever , and the videos of her baring her all are treasured by devotees .
12 The effect was for her to wave both her arms out in front of her holding her hands together , then surprisingly a seeming third hand was under her jumper and was moving up and down .
13 The Star carried three pictures of her scattering her scarves upon the heads of cheerful spectators : ‘ Ex TV Weathergirl sends the barometer rising ’ .
14 The generous allowance paid automatically into her bank account from her father had always struck Virginia as a vaguely insulting signal of the helpless dependence of his female offspring , negating the possibility of her supporting herself .
15 He looked at his mother , seeing how she smiled self-consciously and lowered her head , for a moment the youthful look of her reminding him terribly of Meg — of how Meg would be a year or two from now .
16 ‘ Insulting , then , ’ she agreed quietly , determined not to lose her temper , although if he was going to carry on in that vein the chances of her keeping it for very long were absolutely nil .
17 What she had meant was that there was absolutely no chance of her joining his lists of conquests .
18 The thought of her twitching her last in a plastic hat , face covered with green mud , carried him through to their bedroom ( a room Elinor had taken to calling ‘ my ’ bedroom ) and shored him up against Maisie 's rendition of the second subject in ‘ Für Elise ’ .
19 In fact , in this moment of her departing I was irrelevant , the couple sitting beside her even more so .
20 When she hears what I have to say to her , there will be no question of her opening her lips on this subject .
21 The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected .
22 The doctor had announced that the boy 's mother was dead and that she would have had twins but they had come prematurely because of her lifting something heavy .
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