Example sentences of "[v-ing] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was good ; it gave her something to think about other than the pain lacerating her heart . |
| 2 | Silencing her with a hand enveloping her face , I half-lifted her and so we entered the cave , the girl struggling furiously . |
| 3 | A numb coldness was enveloping her heart . |
| 4 | She locked her arms around the small of his back and pulled him hard into her , crazed by the sensation caused by his utter maleness enveloping her softness . |
| 5 | Blanche shuffled in her chair , agitating her toes to restore the circulation . |
| 6 | Jane Pargeter was determined to look relaxed , Dexter thought , even though the number of times she kept bobbing her mouth down to sip her tea showed that she was not . |
| 7 | But in a moment , the others were beside her , praising , questioning , almost adoring her courage . |
| 8 | Roseberry 's musical background might go some way to explaining her ‘ good ear ’ as well as her sympathy for musicians trying to catch the attention of A&R departments . |
| 9 | Ms Siobhan Fahey ( see below ) has been explaining her emigration to the south of France . |
| 10 | Around a surrealistic voice sampled from some US TV slot ( where a female patient is explaining her habit of grinding her teeth down to stumps in her sleep ) and a garbled vocal , Therapy ? build up a wall of solid playing that only they can eventually tear down . |
| 11 | The level at which this is pitched and the textual content naturally varies depending on the course and the contexts range widely : one day we might focus on the language of a rape victim in Panjabi ( which we roleplayed in Bedford Police Station ) , the next a simulated interview in Arabic on child abuse , and the next a Vietnamese patient explaining her persistent earache to the doctor , a symptom masking the deeper one , i.e. the trauma of being a refugee . |
| 12 | ’ … and , so I will enjoy her this night before explaining her position to her in the morning . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm afraid what he has to say will cause considerable distress , ’ she said , after explaining her reason for telephoning . |
| 14 | She 'd been so sure that Marianne would waste no time in spreading her poison — now she did n't know how to start explaining her disappearance . |
| 15 | Explaining her painting strategy in producing within a closely defined genre , Delia says ‘ I do n't do ‘ Spaniels ’ as a type . |
| 16 | Even if fitzAlan had not been involved , Isabel knew she would have to find another way to save her brother , because she could not deceive the anxious , sweet-faced lady who was gently explaining her new duties . |
| 17 | And Harriet opening her mouth but then both of them giggling wildly . |
| 18 | She accepted them without opening her eyes . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a pity about Celia , is n't it , ’ she said , opening her eyes . |
| 20 | Then she brought him her account book , which she had kept faithfully from the first day of opening her house , and showed him the state of things . |
| 21 | ‘ Why , Wilson , ’ Mrs Browning said , opening her eyes wide , ‘ it had not occurred to me , nor I am sure to my husband , to think Ferdinando might not go with us . |
| 22 | There was of course Ferdinando , but she hesitated over opening her heart to her husband , who would in any case need her letter read to him and would be unable to answer of his own accord . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Sadie , opening her pamphlet . |
| 24 | ‘ Come on then , ’ she said and , opening her door , hopped out . |
| 25 | Jack took hold of her arms but she stood there limply , staring at him with her wet eyes , opening her wet mouth . |
| 26 | Susan was already opening her eyes . |
| 27 | She was not grief-stricken the way she had been when her father died , but sorrow was a weight which kept her from opening her eyes on a world where she would sorely miss his company . |
| 28 | Yes , I 'm all right , ’ Tamar replied , opening her eyes and then veiling them with the black sweep of her lashes , but not before Tempy had seen the gleam of triumph in their topaz depths . |
| 29 | I remember my mother cried towards the end , opening her handbag to take out an embroidered handkerchief so I caught a whiff of ‘ Evening in Paris ’ , whose blue bottle stood on her dressing table at home , its silver trademark of the Eiffel Tower reflected in triplicate . |
| 30 | Now she pleased Miss Beard by opening her eyes wide and looking suitably impressed . |