Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 2 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 3 | She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income . |
| 4 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 5 | Mrs Brooks ' dog was almost run over recently as she was putting her into the car . |
| 6 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 7 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 8 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 9 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 10 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
| 11 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
| 12 | He was watching her with a glint of amusement in those remarkable eyes . |
| 13 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 14 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |
| 15 | He was watching her with a strange look on his face , half amusement , half something else , and she felt herself bristle . |
| 16 | That curious flicker was in his eyes again ; he was watching her with an intensity that was unnerving . |
| 17 | He was watching her like a cat with a mouse . |
| 18 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 19 | He was swinging her into the sailboat , then , with a broad grin , leaping in beside her . |
| 20 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 21 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was draining her from every angle , mentally , physically and … and sexually . |
| 24 | She understood that he was imagining her in a swimsuit with sleek hair at the local pool or in a short , white dress on a tennis court . |
| 25 | He was telling her about a holiday in Greece instead . |
| 26 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 27 | It was then she realised that he was lambasting her with the tennis racquet . |
| 28 | As the abrasive words poured into her ears , he was moving her against an ornamental lacquerwork cabinet of hip height and bending her backwards , a hand dealing with the intricacies of her bustier with a sure skill that bore witness to a wealth of experience with even the most esoteric of feminine garments . |
| 29 | And then , almost at once , his iron control seemed to snap , and he was kissing her with a frenzied , pent-up , impatient longing that was totally beyond anything she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 30 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |