Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] her [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost as if someone were keeping her away from trouble . |
| 2 | Hilary was depressed at your long absence ; I was cheering her up with photographs of your sporting exploits , which hang , as you know , in the master bedroom . |
| 3 | ‘ I was to pick her up by the Souk Al-Gadira . ’ |
| 4 | I was taking her home with me … . ’ |
| 5 | I was working her hard by now , trying to make her lose control . |
| 6 | As the girl played the woman dilated her nostrils and rose slightly off the piano stool , as if someone was drawing her up by an invisible wire attached to the crown of her head . |
| 7 | Anne was surprised that nobody was taking her up on it . |
| 8 | The boss said you were to take her out for as long as you wanted , sir . |
| 9 | She was easing her back with her hands , happy with the shoes near to completion , when young Will returned . |
| 10 | Jenny finished her second pint with a swallow that reminded Pascoe , who was watching her surreptitiously through the bar mirror , of Jacko Roberts . |
| 11 | They were boys of fifteen or sixteen and they were watching her keenly from a position by the railings at the far corner of the church . |
| 12 | Those wicked dark eyes of his were lifting her up into another planet . |
| 13 | She was n't quite sure what he was summing her up for but he was certainly doing that . |
| 14 | He was watching her closely from beneath his brows , his dark face inscrutable . |
| 15 | Some reason why he was watching her cautiously as if she would erupt with anger . |
| 16 | She was also clutching his knee and he was swinging her up on his foot at every step and she was screaming and laughing . |
| 17 | In a flash he was pushing her away from the path they were making and into the cover of the undergrowth . |
| 18 | As he was speaking , he was pushing her relentlessly towards the bottom of the stairs . |
| 19 | They were in the bedroom and he was tucking her in under the quilt , stroking her forehead , pushing back the damp strands of blonde hair where her tears had soaked them . |
| 20 | Then , making their apologies to the professor and his wife , he was whisking her off towards the dance-floor . |
| 21 | He was holding her there without duress , pinning her where she sat by the sheer magnetism of his physical presence . |
| 22 | He was kissing her now with a delicate urgency , her cheeks and temples , her closed eyelids and long , slender throat . |
| 23 | Luke 's hands were cradling her head and he was kissing her all over her face with an adoring tenderness she would never have dreamed was possible . |
| 24 | Those moments did not last for long , however , because she was soon hearing again his silky , and infuriating , declaration that he was taking her over as his girlfriend . |
| 25 | I thought he was taking her away for ever . |
| 26 | A moment later , with a curt ‘ Follow me ’ , he was leading her down to the end of the corridor , then along a short passageway off to the right . |
| 27 | He was putting her away from him , because in the end Rebecca was vulnerable , and she meant more to him than anyone else . |
| 28 | Yet , unbelievably , he was putting her away from him , his movements rough , unco-ordinated . |
| 29 | He was making her out to be a two-faced liar . |
| 30 | He moved his pelvis strongly against her own until she squirmed in his arms , then somehow they were across the room and he was forcing her down among the silk cushions of the four-poster , fingers already lifting the thin wool sweater beneath her unbuttoned jacket , seeking the pulsing softness of her breasts with the mark of desire across his face . |