Example sentences of "[vb past] she [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked inside , came upstairs … and found her lying on the bed . |
| 2 | She was seen by neighbours as she made her way along Athelstane Road towards her home , minutes before passers-by found her lying on the pavement . |
| 3 | I found her lying among the Foinmen . " |
| 4 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 5 | When he came home he found her peering into the well of his top hat . |
| 6 | The next day found her driving round the busy , bustling city of Sheffield , desperately trying to keep one eye on the traffic , and the other on the directions scrawled on a piece of paper . |
| 7 | They found her sitting at the table with the Telegraph , nibbling toast . |
| 8 | He found her sitting at the desk which was quite clear . |
| 9 | ‘ We found her sitting in the loo lighting up . ’ |
| 10 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
| 11 | I found her standing by the sink , which she was filling with hot water . |
| 12 | Alex recounted her meeting with the young painter and they laughed together . |
| 13 | Isabel stopped her pacing about the room and looked at de Raimes in surprise . |
| 14 | Not that it stopped her talking about the Jesus who was the centre of her life . |
| 15 | Harriet noticed her looking at the groceries and said cheerfully , ‘ I took one of those cordon bleu cookery courses . |
| 16 | I noticed her hanging around the bar , staring through its window , while I ate my fish and potatoes . |
| 17 | Jacob hated her going to the clinic , but she went whenever things at home got too difficult . |
| 18 | Sara looked sulky and left them to it , and they heard her calling to the old lady with rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 19 | Dan and Evelyn heard her stamping up the stairs and both followed her . |
| 20 | Peter Lunnen , who took the call , said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that as he shouted down the telephone line to Mrs Wilks , he heard her speaking in the distance . |
| 21 | He heard her whistling to the radio beyond the half-closed door of what he presumed was her bedroom , and there was another door that could have led to the living-room . |
| 22 | Thousands who heard her singing to the troopships passing through Durban remember ‘ The Lady in White ’ , and there will be many who will appreciate the opportunity of hearing her story through the medium of audio tape . |
| 23 | Wycliffe heard her clattering down the stairs . |
| 24 | And I stood there , leaning against the wall with my eyes closed while I heard her trudging down the stairs and fiddling with the doorknob . |
| 25 | He watched her going down the steps of the stand , nervous and intent as though on a holy mission . |
| 26 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 27 | I watched her sipping at the stuff , making faces . |
| 28 | ‘ She will start training for Wimbledon this weekend , ’ added her agent , but he admitted her playing in the year 's third Grand Slam tournament was ‘ not a certainty ’ . |
| 29 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 30 | Her anger kept her going for the best part of two days , but then Mick bumped into her and asked how Jack was , and she told him , in words of one syllable . |