Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] her [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the senior courtiers who had sniffily averted their eyes when the Princess approached were forced to treat her with more respect . |
| 2 | She could not possibly have known the misery such a revelation would cause him , because now he was forbidden to call her by any other name and he knew from painful experience that Tom Fish would not relent until he had his way . |
| 3 | There was also fear that he was going to punish her in some unpleasant way for Jason 's actions , and other , deeper fears that even now she refused to acknowledge . |
| 4 | Spennymoor impresario John Wray met Angie last summer and was inspired to book her for several tours of the North-East . |
| 5 | She had not missed the fact that the coffee-table was piled high with past copies of Query and his arrogant manner was beginning to annoy her to such an extent that she was just about ready to storm off through the door and let Mr Parnham make of it what he could . |
| 6 | One minute he was kissing her as if he never wanted it to stop , and the next he was trying to protect her in some cryptic , jaded way from a danger that seemed clear to him but was a mystery to her . |
| 7 | He was determined to torment her in any way he could . |