Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 2 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 3 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 4 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 5 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 6 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 7 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
| 8 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 9 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 10 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 11 | His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination . |
| 12 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 13 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 14 | Later , on their way home , Katherine suddenly realized what it was that had been troubling her throughout the evening . |
| 15 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 16 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |