Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [conj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember looking into Mrs Monro 's face and seeing that she looked concerned and being surprised . |
| 2 | Lisa dived in hungrily , spreading butter and honey on a croissant , and reflecting as she washed down the first bite with coffee that it was even more delicious than it looked . |
| 3 | She sought his mouth again , wrapping her arms around his neck , offering and receiving a kiss so fierce , impatient and demanding that she clung to him and she lost her balance , fell against him , felt him gather her up against the inflammatory hardness of his body and lift her on to the bed . |
| 4 | A double page spread appeared in the Mail , featuring Beattie 's real mother , Zelma , in her house in Hull , and revealing that she prefers to use Mercury as it 's cheaper . |
| 5 | It was in the course of that initial watching and listening that she had come across Amy . |
| 6 | The shriek that went up as she sank back on to a wicker sofa drumming her heels on the ground and yelling and shouting that she wished he were dead , and that she 'd been dishonoured , made him quite alarmed . |
| 7 | Coughing and spluttering as she gasped for air , Laura was jerked into consciousness by the sound of a high-pitched giggle and the feel of a wet kiss on her cheek . |
| 8 | It was not so warm today , so Edith had stopped eyeing the bathing machines wistfully and wondering if she dared . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , we prefer to keep our relationship very private at this stage , ’ she answered the other nurse , sounding much less assured , now , to her own ears , and regretting that she had started this silly game . |
| 10 | She tailed off , colour coming and going as she remembered what had happened both before and after that fateful conversation she 'd overheard , and saw in his eyes an echo of everything that she was feeling . |
| 11 | His grandmother , living in luxury in the Plaza Hotel in Buenos Aires and grumbling because she had to wash her own stockings , claimed she had no money even to pay her own bills . |
| 12 | Up to the age of 13 , he was privately educated by his mother by means of signing and fingerspelling as she did not agree with the oralist method used by the Liverpool School for the Deaf . |
| 13 | For a moment he wondered about her , what she thought of all the ribbing and chipping that she received almost every day in this place . |
| 14 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
| 15 | The old lady would have walked back to her villa , but Miguel stopped her by closing the door , and insisting that she wait for a golf cart . |
| 16 | She longed for a weapon , for even a hairpin , and knowing that she did not have one , she knew too that she was totally defenceless , unarmed and alone . |
| 17 | So saying , she thrust the coffee into Jack 's hand and made for the light reading ‘ Ladies ’ , rubbing and muttering as she went . |
| 18 | Taken from her monthly BBC Radio ‘ Woman 's Hour ’ series and culminating as she flies over for the opening night of ‘ 84 Charing Cross Road ’ . |
| 19 | When you see de rainbow you know God know wha he doing one big smile across the sky I tell you God got style the man got style When you see raincloud pass and de rainbow make a show I tell you is God doing limbo the man doing limbo But sometimes you know when I see de rainbow so full of glow and curving like she bearing a child I does want know if God ai n't a woman If that is so the woman got style man she got style |
| 20 | It was an exhilarating meeting with her , because she was at her best and talking as she writes , and trying not to smile when she made us laugh . |
| 21 | For two days he helped her and took stance at night near by , pleased to hear her breathing gradually ease and improve , and watching as she began to sleep in a less troubled way . |
| 22 | They were half open , silently fixing her in a look so intense and piercing that she felt caught in it , as if hypnotized . |
| 23 | Then she all at once became aware that Ven was looking at her seriously , all mockery , however gentle , gone , and suddenly she was feeling quite breathless , and discovering that she needed to say something , and quite urgently , to get her over that breathless feeling . |
| 24 | ‘ Jack , please , ’ she whimpered , and he diverted his attention lower , stroking and taunting until she thought she would die . |
| 25 | You never saw such a frenzy as her frantic rush to dress herself , me pulling outfits from the wardrobe , she rejecting them as fast as they landed on the bed , trying on and discarding until she stood there in a stew of irritation and indecision in nothing but bra and panties . |
| 26 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 27 | Maura watched as her mother checked the little girl from head to toe , shaking her head and tutting as she did it . |