Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among other foundations , Queen Margaret ( whose efforts on behalf of the Church were duly recognized in her canonization ) set up her own private chapel on the Castle Rock in Edinburgh , now the oldest surviving building in the city . |
| 2 | THE jet-setting daughter of crooked publisher Robert Maxwell is showing few signs of curtailing her lavish lifestyle despite the plight of thousands of pensioners who were mercilessly robbed by her father . |
| 3 | They were mostly sympathising with her loss of form and her problems . |
| 4 | She did not actually remember herself as talking the whole of the time — could there have been silent passages when the words were only reeling through her mind ? |
| 5 | She had spent the evening smouldering with resentment after his callous dismissal of her father 's death , but now the biblical phrases Luke had employed earlier were suddenly hammering at her brain and heightening her agitation , although she suspected that she was playing into his hands by allowing them to do so . |
| 6 | As it seemed , if she were not to die of her love she had to poison it ; and even , over its death agonies , to exult . |
| 7 | Then the Birmingham Small Arms Company revealed after many a summer that the car she sat in like a burnished throne , and even some of the furs she wore , were not provided by her Prince Charming , Sir Bernard , but by them , the nuts and bolts firm of which he was chairman , as a business expense which they were no longer happy to provide . |
| 8 | The front page article published on May 21 this year claimed that Mrs Ann Plugge 's children Gale and Greville were not fathered by her husband , Captain Leonard Plugge , who was Conservative MP for Chatham , but by Jack Bouvier . |
| 9 | Her thoughts were carefully filtered through her father 's public relations machine which ensured she was never interviewed . |
| 10 | Avice de Columbars , for example , was amerced in 300 marks at the 1244 Hampshire Forest Eyre : her Forest duties were probably performed by her steward , who was adjudged at the same time to pay 100 marks . |
| 11 | Folly took that in , while trying to ignore the fact that Luke 's lips were now nuzzling at her ear . |
| 12 | She stared at her reflection and saw a woman whom the gods were now punishing for her temerity in declaring she would never be in the grip of uncontrollable emotion , and here she was … here she was … |
| 13 | Like tonight , faced with the ordeal of going to a grand dinner party with people who all knew each other and were far removed from her experience , she had acquitted herself proudly and well . |
| 14 | It can be judged from these that plans for the subscription were fairly advanced before her death . |
| 15 | ( Ludmilla 's intellectual ambitions were posthumously immortalized by her father 's generous establishment of a research fellowship named after her at Oxford University . ) |
| 16 | I think all of us who visited her were strongly affected by her situation , and it was an early lesson in finding out what survives when all the outward normalities of life are stripped away . |
| 17 | I noticed people coming towards us were n't getting in her way . |
| 18 | He were n't sitting outside her house at all , he was sitting up here ! |
| 19 | Her collarbone felt as if it were about to burst through her skin but her head had cleared and she felt strong . |
| 20 | He had kissed her and left , giving her ample time in which to dress , to comb her hair , to apply lipstick to lips which were softly bruised by her lover 's ardour . |
| 21 | A fascinating face with clearly drawn features that were indelibly printed on her memory . |
| 22 | A year afterwards , an express came , Mrs. Welch reminded her of her dream , and upon opening the Will it was found that the cabinet was left to Mrs. Blencowe and Mrs. Jennens was directed by her dream to the secret drawers , where she found diamonds and other valuables , which were afterwards given to her daughter Mrs. Peareth |
| 23 | When she was politely asked about her father 's health her reply startled the assembled company . |
| 24 | Secretary Karen Haywood said she was relentlessly pursued by her boss Stephen Pointer . |
| 25 | She was presumably trained in her father 's workshop , and she came to England into royal service in about 1545 . |
| 26 | She and her brother went to see him and he was so touched by her gesture that he burst into tears . |
| 27 | I was so offended by her behaviour towards me that tears came to my eyes . |
| 28 | And anyway , I was so overwhelmed by her mother , who was so sweet to me , that I wanted to be her friend . |
| 29 | Rincewind hurriedly recalled that a dryad was so linked to her tree that she suffered wounds in sympathy |
| 30 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |