Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] her [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her mother spoke emotionally of the moment when they were reunited with her at the hospital on Sunday . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A framed certificate was presented to her at the Good Companions ' meeting last week by chairman Janet Gill . |
| 16 | the prize of £1000 and a silver cup was presented to her at the college by Chief Executive , Best Western Hotels . |
| 17 | Ace stuck out her tongue at Daak , who was grinning at her through the shuttle 's front window , but she doubted whether he could see her face inside the suit . |
| 18 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 19 | His greatest pleasure was to walk with her along the seashore . |
| 20 | She saw too , in her mind 's eye , the heaving bulk of the buffalo bull struggling in the grass in its death throes , saw once more the blindly charging cow and the ragged black vultures flopping down out of the sky , and all these images crowding through her mind heightened the vague sense of turbulence that was growing inside her with the gathering storm . |
| 21 | Daak was waiting for her beyond the next upright . |
| 22 | Jonadab was waiting for her at the stair bottom . |
| 23 | Uncle Alfred was waiting for her at the entrance to the nest when she arrived . |
| 24 | The manager was waiting for her at the desk , deftly fidgeting with a half-stuffed peregrine falcon . |
| 25 | Luke was waiting for her at the bottom of the staircase , fifteen minutes later , looking — surprise , surprise ! — extremely impatient . |
| 26 | Fernando was waiting for her at the kerbside , leaning against his white convertible Mercedes . |
| 27 | He was waiting for her in the lounge . |
| 28 | She put down the receiver , feeling much happier , and even enjoyed the lukewarm haddock that was waiting for her in the kitchen . |
| 29 | Rune was waiting for her in the foyer as she stepped out of the lift . |
| 30 | No doubt he was waiting for her in the foyer , champing at her non-appearance . |