Example sentences of "[adv] she is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only she is feeling desperately homesick . |
| 2 | Perhaps she is Swinging . " |
| 3 | Perhaps she is getting bored , ’ said Breeze , and read on . |
| 4 | Perhaps she is going to turn into a quietly spoken , normal human being . |
| 5 | In doing so she is reviving the ‘ great divide ’ theory that has been so discredited by social anthropologists and sociolinguists . |
| 6 | so she is coming |
| 7 | The first , brief account of her long love for Kallikrates which Ayesha gives to Leo Vincey and his guardian in She is expanded in Wisdom 's Daughter to emphasise this spirituality and to excuse her sin as being due to the inexorable power of love . |
| 8 | Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days . |
| 9 | Finally she is forced into exclaiming , with almost bewildered amazement : ‘ These people are it ! |
| 10 | But elsewhere she is seen to be ‘ black ’ in more than one sense . |
| 11 | Now she is able to eat again , although naturally only very little and often but already she is feeling stronger and is doing exercises to build up the muscles which had become so weak . |
| 12 | But anyway she is arrested within hours of her arrival and successfully interrogated . |
| 13 | UNEMPLOYED Sandra Davies wants a job so badly she is tramping the streets at dawn pushing applications through letter-boxes . |
| 14 | Somewhere she is moving , prepare to receive her . |
| 15 | But still she is exploited by men — and a lot poorer . |
| 16 | For more and more she is coming to resemble a mechanical praying mantis , frozen there in the glass , he wrote . |
| 17 | ‘ All those cosy pictures of the family around the fire , all that stiff upper lip during the war — and now she is determined not to see all her work go down the drain . ’ |
| 18 | Now she is determined to do something for herself . ’ |
| 19 | Now she is hoping that her open luck will change , though it looks as though Smashiton will have too much to do in tonight 's £100 450 metres open at Sunderland . |
| 20 | Indeed , now she is looking forward to a career in tennis . |
| 21 | Now she is looking forward to a valuable contrasting experience in Denmark . |
| 22 | Now she is getting her teeth into Alfie . |
| 23 | Now she is wishing that I was back at work . ’ |
| 24 | We were acting in good faith , of course , and I ca n't imagine that anyone is going to be difficult now she is gone . |
| 25 | I am like unto a leper here with all faces turned against me except your kind friend Miss Blagden and now she is gone too . |
| 26 | But now she is wanting to be home . |
| 27 | Seems like only yesterday ( well it was earlier this year ) that Lucie Fjeldstad , 49 , was boasting about the $100m IBM Corp had given her to lay the foundations of a multimedia business : now she is taking the IBM shilling , also known as early retirement incentives , and quitting her post as vice-president and general manager , Multimedia ; she was behind the Blockbuster agreements . |
| 28 | Now she is taking up a fifth career — painting . |
| 29 | Now she is enjoying simple pleasures like a trip to the park again . |
| 30 | Now she is learning to walk again and has already had a few day visits home . |