Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] she [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the second show was coming to an end , Lucy sat herself in the makeup chair and made a sullen face and checked her watch frequently , with the idea that Josie should catch her doing it as she finally came in through the door . |
| 2 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 3 | She could wait for him — no one could stop her marrying him once she was twenty-one . |
| 4 | I could hear her thinking it then |
| 5 | I could hear her scolding him for not having contacted her sooner , not having brought me to see her , asking whether I was safe , was someone with me , who was looking after me . |
| 6 | She went in for a drink one time , she liked a few drinks around midday , she used to say it helped the long hot afternoons slide by , ’ and Nathan smiled to himself , because he could hear her saying it . |
| 7 | Er just that little bit th that you felt , that I was n't , er you could imagine her doing it , you know . |
| 8 | The fact that the other child cries and you shout at her lets her know that it was naughty — and may stop her doing it again if you 're lucky — but it does n't mean she understands the pain she 's caused the other child . |
| 9 | I can see her marrying him . |
| 10 | I can save her photocopying it . |
| 11 | Not many women reach her years and have as much — for everything he can imagine her wanting he hastens to provide ; and it is bestowed as if she were a young and lovely creature at her first ball , and when he helps her down the stairs or into a taxi — for she is getting frail — he turns her into Gloriana . |