Example sentences of "[adv] he [was/were] [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She finished eating , hoping she could elude Roman and get to Dana 's hotel without him , but as soon as she put her cup down he was urging her to her feet . |
| 2 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |
| 3 | Now he was turning her into a stammering schoolgirl ! |
| 4 | He had loved Arianna and she had run away from him , and now he was judging her by what Arianna had done . |
| 5 | At least when he was condemning her he was reacting to her , personally and subjectively ; now he was treating her as if she were a stranger . |
| 6 | And then he was dragging her by the hands , racing across the lawn , nearly pulling her arm from its socket , crashing through the kitchen door , crying aloud so that it sounded like a whoop of triumph . |
| 7 | Her eyes fell irresistibly to the firm , broad chest , the gleam of hard , taut muscle and then he was pulling her to him , kissing her mouth , her neck , the base of her throat , finding the clasp of her bra , discarding it , so that her breasts hung heavy and exposed , aching with longing and desire . |
| 8 | Then he was leading her across the terrace and through the open doors of the villa , across the drawing-room and out into the hall . |
| 9 | Mutinously she flicked her gaze back to where he was surveying her in stony silence . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's only natural , ’ Harvey said , wondering why he was bringing her into it . |
| 11 | He must n't touch her or she would shatter to pieces , fall on him and ask him why he was ignoring her in favour of her sister . |