Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [was/were] [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
| 2 | And the job he was telling her about seemed interesting and desirable . |
| 3 | The other day I was telling her about something that had happened , crying as I told the story , and she started crying too . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It had suddenly borne in upon her that it was almost midnight and that she was in a strange flat in a strange city , with a strange man who was plying her with champagne . |
| 6 | The colour left her skin , her pale face showing a deep fear at the way he was crushing her to his body , the whipcord strength of his arms and the determination of his roaming fingers giving her an idea of the violence with which he would take her . |
| 7 | It was hard to conceal the sudden rush of nerves she felt when she saw the way he was watching her with that barely hidden amusement . |
| 8 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 9 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |