Example sentences of "[conj] she [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivy better : Coronation Street actress Lynne Perrie , who plays Ivy Brennan , was said to be ‘ slightly improved ’ today in hospital where she is undergoing tests following her collapse on the set of the series three days ago . |
| 2 | TRACY THOMPSON is a graduate of the Royal College of Art who is now based at Queen 's College , Oxford , where she is writing a dissertation on her experiences during two and a half years living in the Yemen . |
| 3 | He is in his third year at sea when the misjudgment of Captain ‘ Battler ’ Cobb , reckless with drink and determined to win the grain race , runs the ship into a typhoon in the South Pacific , where she is dismasted and the Captain is seriously injured . |
| 4 | Consider the response of a five-and-a-half-year-old girl in a Yorkshire infant school where she is asked to say how two pictures are different from each other . |
| 5 | ‘ She spent the night in intensive care after the operation , and then was moved to a private room where she is recovering . ’ |
| 6 | She has been seconded to the Civil Service Selection Board , where she is helping to devise the entrance competition for the ‘ fast stream ’ applicants to the Civil Service , Diplomatic Service and Tax Inspectorate . |
| 7 | Among the nominees attending the lunch , as recognition of their achievements , was Montgomeryshire nurse Sue Blower , who had returned specially from her work as a nurse tutor in Bucharest , Romania , where she is helping to set up that country 's first school of nursing for 40 years . |
| 8 | She now attends a drop-in centre which has a crèche and where she is learning to cope with stress . |
| 9 | After the Dorrits come into their fortune Mr Plornish is found ‘ a small share in a small builder 's business ’ , and Mrs Plornish is established ‘ in the small grocery and general trade in a snug little shop at the crack end of the Yard ’ , where she is joined by her poor father , Old Nandy , to whom she is devoted , and assisted by Maggy . |
| 10 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 11 | Mrs Barzach will have a much more difficult time retaining her seat in the 15th arrondissement of Paris , which she has represented for only the past three years and where she is standing against the well-established local RPR mayor ( and deputy mayor of the capital ) . |
| 12 | If you find it difficult to understand some of the feelings she expresses , you have to realise that she has reached a stage in life 's journey of which , as yet , you know nothing at all , and until you stand where she is standing now you are in no position to pass any judgement on her attitudes . |
| 13 | Ms Davidson , a Darlington artist , is based at Woodham Comprehensive where she is running a photography project for pupils . |
| 14 | Rosamund Cresswell attends Farnborough Hill Convent College where she is studying for the GCSE examinations and in September she moves to the Sixth Form at Wellington College . |
| 15 | Scouting takes up much of Sarah 's spare time but she still squeezes in regular visits to Huddersfield Technical College where she is studying for two ‘ A ’ levels — geography and business studies . |
| 16 | Mrs X is at present attending a college where she is studying science , and desperately wishes to take up embalming as a career , but unfortunately this is where the problem begins . |
| 17 | Those eyes , sombre and steady yet lacking in curiosity , comfort her ; they seem to know her , who she is , where she is going . |
| 18 | And a wife has no other relationship where she is told to submit in everything as the church submits to Christ . |
| 19 | Describing herself as something of a ‘ social victim ’ , she has temporarily torn herself away from urban distractions in favour of time and space at a ‘ country abode ’ , where she is working on material for a second album , due in November . |
| 20 | Rosemarie Ford is also superfit as she dashes regularly between London and Bristol , where she is starring as Grizabella in ‘ Cats ’ . |
| 21 | It 's worth up to £4,000 , but would-be murderer Sheila Stroud was allowed out of Holloway Prison , where she 's serving 18 years , and driven to Cheltenham to dispute Mr Stokle 's claim . |
| 22 | ON THE transatlantic phone from a Dallas hotel room where she 's having a rest from touring America as support to the Lemonheads , Juliana is often forthright and sometimes evasive , giving short , sharp answers to my silly questions . |
| 23 | She has two days off from her family where she 's working , so she comes those two days . |
| 24 | Let's hope there 's no right where she 's going . |
| 25 | They walked on in silence for a time , and then Hilary said : ‘ I still think your mum 's playing a dirty game , or she 's imagining things . |
| 26 | She 's writing a children 's book , erm , well she 's written one , and it 's going around to the publishers and she 's written or she 's writing a second . |
| 27 | Or she 's staying to thank O'Brien personally — I really do n't know . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps someone 's still there , or she 's tucking Darius up in bed . |
| 29 | Can you bring hers in , or she 's gon na create hell biscuits . |
| 30 | or she 's doing a embroidery or doing something |