Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] her [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharon 's boyfriend Matthew Stanton , 21 , was walking with her just behind the happy , giggling girls at the time of the accident early on Saturday evening . |
| 2 | Still holding her arm , he was walking with her back along the avenue , down to the sea front . |
| 3 | She turned to meet his gaze , and her heart was suddenly beating a tattoo in her chest , because he was looking at her again with that dark , broody expression in his eyes . |
| 4 | The moon was pulling at her even before Spanish Fork , leading her to her destiny . |
| 5 | Something or someone had annoyed him and instantly she assumed it was because he was landed with her here in his house . |
| 6 | She was eager to welcome whoever was coming to her out of the darkness . |
| 7 | She moved nearer , heedless of Raynor 's warning hand on her arm , not exactly pushing him from her , but summoning , without realising , the authority and the remoteness that had come down to her ; certainly assuming the unconscious imperiousness that she had never known shone from her , and that was shining from her now in the dim , moonlit cell . |
| 8 | Five minutes later , when he returned to the lawn , she was sitting with her back to the tree and , standing before her , he said , ‘ I do n't know how to thank you for your kindness . |
| 9 | According to William , the man and the woman took all their clothes off and climbed into the bath so the woman was sitting with her back to the man , and the man peed into the water . |
| 10 | She was sitting with her back to him , and did not turn round even though she must have heard the sound of horse 's hooves on the hard pebbled path behind her . |
| 11 | She was sitting with her back against a tree more than half asleep . |
| 12 | Guido was standing over her now in that dominating way he had , making her sit up even straighter and stretch her neck even more . |
| 13 | She was standing with her back to me , talking with Walt and another guy . |
| 14 | Fenella was standing with her back to the silver door , watching the Melanisms . |