Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] her [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a moment she realised that he was extolling her virtues as a personal assistant . |
| 2 | The dour , austere Miss Sowerby was wiping her eyes with a handkerchief she had tucked under a sleeve . |
| 3 | The woman was wiping her eyes on a screwed-up tissue . |
| 4 | With the knowledge , half admitted , that she was treating her friends in a pretty shitty way , and did n't deserve to have them , Cassie resolved to phone Stephanie on her return and arrange a meeting . |
| 5 | One month later , the young wife of a senior member of the Politburo was astonishing her friends with a necklace , earrings and bracelets of positively Tsarist splendour . |
| 6 | A skinny Danish girl , who was washing her clothes in a bucket of pondwater , told me with aristocratic scorn about arriviste wastrels on the next beach who were squandering 90 pence a night on their rooms . |