Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] her [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the lady — accompanied by red admirals , peacocks and common blues — was fluttering her wings in the new butterfly centre . |
| 2 | Cecilia found she had clenched her fists and was driving her nails into the palms of her hands . |
| 3 | She had sat up and was pulling her fingers through the tangled forest . |
| 4 | After a moment she realised that he was extolling her virtues as a personal assistant . |
| 5 | Amanda Fergusson was directing her field-glasses at the Monastery of Saint James , and her face bore an expression of prim pleasure which shocked her companion . |
| 6 | His hand , which had insinuated itself beneath the cover , was sending her thoughts in an entirely different direction , and as his warm palm began rubbing gently across her back she totally lost track of what he was saying and had to desperately drag her mind back as he continued . |
| 7 | The dour , austere Miss Sowerby was wiping her eyes with a handkerchief she had tucked under a sleeve . |
| 8 | The woman was wiping her eyes on a screwed-up tissue . |
| 9 | With the knowledge , half admitted , that she was treating her friends in a pretty shitty way , and did n't deserve to have them , Cassie resolved to phone Stephanie on her return and arrange a meeting . |
| 10 | She was doing her teeth in the bathroom . |
| 11 | Then she was closing her eyes in an agony of resistance , as if making that hand invisible could prevent what she knew was going to happen . |
| 12 | Besides , living as she now was in a small house on top of two other people , and Dr Neil 's surgery boy , and seeing at close hand the wretched people who frequented his surgery , was giving her insights into the motivations and behaviour of the people around her because she had to consider them , whereas always before , in the past , other people had been compelled to consider her . |
| 13 | One month later , the young wife of a senior member of the Politburo was astonishing her friends with a necklace , earrings and bracelets of positively Tsarist splendour . |
| 14 | One spring-driven second later she 'd cut herself free , and two seconds after that she was showing her heels at the side door . |
| 15 | A skinny Danish girl , who was washing her clothes in a bucket of pondwater , told me with aristocratic scorn about arriviste wastrels on the next beach who were squandering 90 pence a night on their rooms . |
| 16 | She found she was straining her ears for the musical clang of the town church bells . |
| 17 | No she was had her feet on the ground |
| 18 | Thus aiding his education because Stella was stretching her powers in the classics : Hedda Gabler , Lady Macbeth , St Joan . |