Example sentences of "she [verb] [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried exchanging it for Fleury 's but that was just as hard . |
| 2 | She recalled Ian 's advice and whenever the picture came before her eyes , she tried breathing it out . |
| 3 | No doubt her mind would do the same if she stopped chivvying it . |
| 4 | She shivered in her armchair through cold and impatience , thinking that Swod relished a captive audience but that she hated forming it . |
| 5 | She hated doing it . |
| 6 | and six pound fifty then week cos I wo n't , you wo n't have them on Monday but if she keeps working it 'll be most Mondays anyway |
| 7 | But she keeps doing it she done it again last night , did n't smell till yesterday . |
| 8 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 9 | er She she keeps saying it 's terribly interesting , I hope she does n't deny that at the end of the two hours . |
| 10 | she keeps saying it ! |
| 11 | She finished undoing it for him and slipped out of the dress , and as she let him raise her petticoat her eyes strayed again to the patch on the ceiling . |
| 12 | But until 1974 , when she began using it , she relied on unstretched canvas and wood . |
| 13 | She manoeuvred herself so she was crouched between him and the rocks , and taking his long hard knob by the root she began waving it under her nose like a conductor 's baton . |
| 14 | He and Domenica liked good food and , occasionally she enjoyed cooking it . |
| 15 | She enjoyed figuring it out . |
| 16 | The microwave chimed and she hauled a still half-frozen block of chilli out on a big plate ; she started breaking it up with a large wooden spoon . |
| 17 | Just got to counter , she started putting it through and I looked up and there were these signposts , and it says cash only . |
| 18 | ‘ She kept repeating it over and and over again like a robot . ’ |
| 19 | They 'd been engaged twice but she kept breaking it off because he could n't hold a job down . |
| 20 | A suspicion kept niggling at the back of her mind , but she kept pushing it away as more than she could deal with . |
| 21 | I do n't know how long she kept using it ( or more precisely , how long it kept using her ) , but surely up to the day when she noticed her sister , younger by eight years , tossing up her arm while saying good-bye to a girlfriend . |
| 22 | She was sure it would get Edouard and his wife into trouble , and she kept saying it was only for another day or two . ’ |
| 23 | I like this girl , cos she 's Welsh , just , I ca n't do her accent , but she kept saying it several times , he was getting really pissed off with her . |
| 24 | You get Ann , senile dementia , they had to get the taps off the gas fire because she kept turning it on and off without it being lit again , found wandering in her nightclothes , injustice , and then we found Eileen , who was in an upstairs room , yes she enjoyed that life for about five years , great council house then she had an accident and then because she could n't re-house her , she was a virtual prisoner inside her own home that she 'd made up . |
| 25 | And she kept pulling it and making the hole go . |
| 26 | turns the beds down and that 's i But she enjoys doing it , so that 's a little bit for her to do . |
| 27 | ‘ Sandwich , ’ she said putting it on a plate bearing the legend LNER . |
| 28 | She regretted saying it , obscurely . |
| 29 | There was nothing that could be used for a cradle so obviously she intended keeping it in bed with her , but Sarah had heard tales of babies being smothered like that and she was surprisingly anxious that her newly expected brother or sister would n't end up that way . |
| 30 | She liked it that way , and she intended keeping it that way . |