Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [conj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strode on ahead of her , rather than waiting for her to join him as he would normally have done , and the slightly calculated rudeness had her frowning as she followed him into his office . |
| 2 | And now he found himself wondering whether she knew or guessed about Amy . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you saying that she killed herself ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me what 's going on between you and Piers , ’ she heard herself pleading as she walked beside her . |
| 5 | She found herself saying that she felt her father was going to ‘ drop down ’ in some way . |
| 6 | It was a contradiction in terms , Lisa found herself thinking as she looked back across the desk at him . |
| 7 | She danced out of the room , and her mother and brother could hear her singing as she ran upstairs . |
| 8 | Belov chatted easily , although his real talent lay in persuading her to talk without her realising that she 'd been persuaded . |
| 9 | As for Dinah , she was so greatly given to her acting that she took no notice of any of the young men . |
| 10 | Yes , but she could be parting from him in a different way — ; stealing away , running off , he was surprised she had never done so , that she had n't killed the old woman with a poison in the way she had perhaps schemed to kill him , that she had not held her under just a moment too long when she took her swimming that she had not simply abandoned her in the settlement . |
| 11 | Accumulating the evidence would be an occupation to keep her going whilst she organized her children 's lives with Mrs O'Keefe , who came in each day to look after them . |
| 12 | Fury at her own gullibility kept her going until she got home . |
| 13 | Mrs Healy saw him running as she looked from her bow window and knew that something must be amiss . |
| 14 | It did not stop her knowing that she had made an idiot of herself and upset Harriet Shakespeare , who had enough trouble without that . |
| 15 | She had to control her breathing as she looked into his face . |
| 16 | So it was for the sake of her playing that she defected ? |
| 17 | And though he was never to make such almost innocent remarks again , and though Eva and Dad continued to want to make love all the time , and I caught her giggling while she did idiotic things with him , like snipping the hair in his ears and nostrils with a huge pair of scissors , there were looks that escaped all possible policing , looks that made me think he was capable only of a corrupted happiness . |
| 18 | Lucy could hear her humming as she waited . |
| 19 | Helen left her trying while she made a phone call . |
| 20 | The family 's maid has told how a dishevelled Spiro stopped her working when she turned up at the home the day after the killings . |
| 21 | That 's all very well if you 've got a forest to keep it going like she has , I thought , but what if you live in a towerblock ? |