Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Londonderry was greatly admired at the Russian Court and some of the Londonderry family jewels — the Down Diamonds and the parure and cross were given to her by the Russian Emperor Alexander I. |
| 2 | Two letter of thanks were then read — the first from Edith Harlow thanking all the teachers for the lovely handbag , matching gloves and cheque which were presented to her at the Essex Rally together with a jewel box , cheque , flowers and an iced cake all given by Essex teachers and class members . |
| 3 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 4 | And however hard she tried to hide her intentions from Nils they were emblazoned around her in the electric blue of panic over the iridium crown of Steel City in the night . |
| 5 | they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena . |
| 6 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 7 | Oh , sure , about as safe as a shield of plastic wrap would make her feel if a bear were charging towards her at a full gallop . |
| 8 | David 's eyes were fixed on her with an intensity she had n't seen before . |
| 9 | People were squeezing by her in the general drift to get a look at him , and she let herself go with the crowd a little in order to see how he was doing . |
| 10 | Her mother spoke emotionally of the moment when they were reunited with her at the hospital on Sunday . |
| 11 | Silas was kneeling beside her in an instant , his face pale as he muttered huskily , ‘ Damned rabbits — they wait till you 're almost upon them . |
| 12 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 13 | The blue eyes studied her lazily in the mirror , and she had the strangest sensation he was toying with her as a cat would a mouse before a kill . |
| 14 | Constance had no time to assess the bewildering exchange of tone that the lunch party had taken before Giancarlo was walking towards her with a vivacious woman by his side who was busily blowing kisses and calling ‘ Ciao ’ to the tables she passed . |
| 15 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 16 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
| 17 | He was looking at her with a decidedly mischievous gleam in his eye . |
| 18 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
| 19 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |
| 20 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
| 21 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 22 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 23 | Having , as she thought , settled their relationship satisfactorily , Ianthe was then conscious that he was looking at her in a way that did not seem quite what she thought of as brotherly , though she had never had any brothers of her own to make the comparison with . |
| 24 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 25 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 26 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
| 27 | And Sheffield Crown Court has heard how a man allegedly kidnapped and raped his wife ; the man who ca n't be named for legal reasons , was separated from her at the time of the supposed attack , and the case is making legal history . |
| 28 | That question was decided for her in a most terrible way . |
| 29 | There was this old lady comes towards me ; she was fussing about her luggage , that a porter was pushing behind her on a trolley . |
| 30 | A framed certificate was presented to her at the Good Companions ' meeting last week by chairman Janet Gill . |