Example sentences of "her [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She danced out of the room , and her mother and brother could hear her singing as she ran upstairs . |
| 2 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 3 | Belov chatted easily , although his real talent lay in persuading her to talk without her realising that she 'd been persuaded . |
| 4 | As for Dinah , she was so greatly given to her acting that she took no notice of any of the young men . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Fury at her own gullibility kept her going until she got home . |
| 8 | And I mind her saying that they had nine men once from North Ronaldsay . |
| 9 | But I remembered her asking whether I did n't go crazy on my own at The Pightle . |
| 10 | It did not stop her knowing that she had made an idiot of herself and upset Harriet Shakespeare , who had enough trouble without that . |
| 11 | I thought when I was looking at her talking and I thought , you 're a school mistress . |
| 12 | She had to control her breathing as she looked into his face . |
| 13 | So it was for the sake of her playing that she defected ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Lucy could hear her humming as she waited . |
| 16 | Helen left her trying while she made a phone call . |
| 17 | She does not register the gesture , but I can feel her watching as we go . |
| 18 | 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 . |