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

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1 Feeling the heat of his gaze right through the thin material , she folded her arms protectively , realising only when she saw his mouth curve into a mocking smile that she had merely pushed her breasts upwards , making them clearly visible above the ribbons and lace of the bodice .
2 Jonathan was snoring loudly as she detached his hand from her breast and slid from the bed .
3 She was still shaking her head from side to side and laughing softly when she shooed him from the kitchen and returned her attention to her magazine .
4 And Dinda said she needed a filling , a re-filling actually and she said it 's the first that she 's been to a dentist that she could remember that she did n't notice the needle coming in , part she hates is the needle in the gum .
5 ‘ They had been living together but she said she was leaving him , ’ said Mr Ben Hemo .
6 He nodded without looking up as she placed it on the counter .
7 I was seeing trails and lights from the blue packet 's passing even after she brought it back down .
8 She picked up a barely touched bottle of whisky from the dining-room table , frowning faintly as she studied its label .
9 This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin .
10 Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution .
11 It was hard to walk without making a crunching sound , but she did her best , relaxing only when she reached her car and slid carefully into the driver 's seat .
12 And she was going through and she knew them and er she was going into I it was her second year bio-chemistry exams on the bus and she 's got a bi a text book on bio-chemistry and she 's reading the introduction bit before you even get into proper bio-chemistry and Michael s look leant across and said , what on earth are you doing ?
13 if it 'd happened a couple of weeks ago when she was about I would of kept going over like she said I could do
14 Lisa had given him the choice of staying with her , or going off but she insisted he decide then as she did n't want him leaving in the middle of it all .
15 Oh only a couple of weeks , no they were standing in the common room and she knew he was a virgin right and they were still going out and she knew he was a virgin when they first started going out and Rox goes oh so are you a virgin then erm erm James and he goes no and she was still going out with him and she knew that it was n't with her , obviously , and , and Roxy goes oh who was it then and he goes oh just two , two birds I met in erm Portugal and
16 And it was the er just going out and she pushed me too far !
17 She swung round and marched along the path to where the boat was moored , and this time did n't make the mistake of turning back when she heard him laugh .
18 Her new album , Pukar , is selling strongly and she makes her acting debut soon , playing an aspiring young musician in the Asian TV soap Family Pride .
19 She said she was going to but then she thought about me told Jean last week and she 's baby sitting that 's why Jim is n't staying tonight so she thought she better not Jean asked why and she said come over if you , .
20 Another sign loomed ahead and she frowned into the darkness , slowing up as she approached it .
21 ‘ Well , one of them that caused the trouble , he has n't got a father , you see , so therefore … and he was mucking about and she told him to get out and of course he answered her back , which I do n't think she could take really .
22 have ever gone into nursing now because she said I would n't do it for a grant .
23 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 .
24 But she would n't mind coming along cos she likes him .
25 ‘ I do n't want that busybody nurse coming in if she hears him . ’
26 Then she was crying aloud as she felt her body quickening to climax , and the tears wet on her own cheeks as she soared to a summit she had never hoped to experience , as beautiful and spectacular and as free as the fireworks of Tivoli and , like them , over too soon , leaving her both satiated yet hungry to renew the experience .
27 Her eyes moved contemptuously over him , and then started to flicker , dart , race over him , staring fixedly as she realised his clothes were irrelevant ; she had X-ray vision , could see through his shirt , see every muscle , sinew , black hair …
28 And then she went for him , her voice trembling , her eyes staring with sudden hate , all the Latin in her coming out as she ripped his hand from her shoulder .
29 ‘ And does n't it reassure you to know she told me about coming here when she kept it from her family ? ’
30 She , skilled in the ways of therapy , had after the first few sessions begun dissecting his own motives for him and Kevin , like an obedient dog , ended up nodding slowly as she told him clearly , fully , frankly what he meant when he said what he thought about what she or Henry felt , and how what he thought he thought about what they felt , or said they felt , probably was n't what he really felt any more than what they said they felt was really deep down what they really felt .
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