Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer outings the next year were for her a misery . |
| 2 | She was , in any case , not sure how they were , or how they were for her . |
| 3 | Before she could be sure of his meaning his arms were about her , drawing her into a close embrace . |
| 4 | His arms were about her now and there was an actual whine in his voice as he said , ‘ Emma … |
| 5 | And now they were in town , and she had to assume they were after her . |
| 6 | The thrusters were below her now . |
| 7 | I 'm very sorry about your cat , about Melusina , I know how fond you were of her , but giving you compensation is out of the question . |
| 8 | The houses were behind her now , and the lane stretched ahead bounded by high bare hedges . |
| 9 | His hands were behind her . |
| 10 | Her husband , Uncle George , and their two daughters , Maggie and Marie , were like her , extremely short — not one of them would have reached the five foot mark . |
| 11 | Right from the beginning you were against her . ’ |
| 12 | All At Sea has run well against the best when things were against her as well — second to User Friendly in the Oaks , second to Ruby Tiger at Goodwood and second to Rodrigo De Triano at York . |
| 13 | The two kids were against her , one on each side , and she had her small and narrow arms round her kids ' shoulders and she pulled them to her . |
| 14 | In February 1284 , Constance de Béarn , vicomtesse of Marsan , complained that her claim to the comté of Bigorre had been assigned a hearing by Jean de Grilly , seneschal of Gascony , at Langon in the Bazadais because , she alleged , he knew that ‘ the customs of Bazadais were against her , and that the opposing parties would be aided by those customs ’ . |
| 15 | The grown-ups were above her in the stairwell . |
| 16 | Although both these comforters were with her , Victoria could not settle in the strange environment . |
| 17 | And the very day we were with her she opened a new Citizens ' Advice Bureau in Beccles with considerable aplomb — no easy task after SHE fashion team had stunned the locals by setting up an ironing board in the middle of the town car park and giving Christine 's purple suit a quick press on the spot . |
| 18 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 19 | Most fervently Breeze wished that Gay were with her now , to share this walk and the exciting afternoon . |
| 20 | On this particular day she wished devoutly that her late husband were with her and wondered what he would have to say about their daughter who had , so unaccountably , married another rank . |
| 21 | The young couple were with her less than forty-eight hours , explaining they had promised to spend another thirty-six on the way back with John 's parents , who lived in Cheltenham . |
| 22 | You were with her . |
| 23 | The children were with her . |
| 24 | Maybe you just had dinner with her , and wish you were with her now . |
| 25 | You were with her in the days and weeks that led up to it . |
| 26 | I had somehow supposed her to sit in that room for ever , real only when Hugo or I were with her . |
| 27 | She knew she would open it , but when she did it would be as if he were with her all over again , and she would suffer so … |
| 28 | ‘ You were with her for around five hours , were n't you ? ’ |
| 29 | Mrs Swales 's friends Liz Metcalfe and Gail O'Keefe said they were with her on the night and had never seen her assaulting Mrs Wilson . |
| 30 | They have appealed for people who were with her on the night of October 22 to contact them . |