Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] her [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She was confusing him with her old dreams .
2 Defries realized that she was holding something in her right hand .
3 She was doing it with her usual spare , economical elegance , but also with the air of one who would rather be doing something else .
4 In the taxi , while he was dropping her at her small house in Fulham , she made an effort to regain some inch of the indispensable contact she had squandered , but there seemed no way of doing it .
5 She was clutching something in her right hand , something covered in white powder , as she weaved towards us and sat down heavily and out of breath .
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