Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [prep] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bales of material of every type and hue were spread before her for her approval . |
| 2 | Oh , sure , about as safe as a shield of plastic wrap would make her feel if a bear were charging towards her at a full gallop . |
| 3 | No further mention was made of her by Biff or Mother Bombie . |
| 4 | Dr Neil registered how withdrawn she was , and once they were back home hot , sugary tea was poured down her in a constant stream , and then , despite the warmth of the day , Matey put a shawl around her shoulders and made her sit near the fire . |
| 5 | Jonadab was waiting for her at the stair bottom . |
| 6 | Rosalba was drawn to her above all the other Marys in the province , far and above the Madonna of the Kneading Board , who had been washed ashore with the face of Our Lady in its grain , and who was her mother 's favourite , and hung in replica above her bed . |
| 7 | His greatest pleasure was to walk with her along the seashore . |
| 8 | My grandmother was taken ill with a burst ulcer and an ambulance was called for her at 10.45 , but it did not arrive for two and a half hours . |
| 9 | His voluminous political correspondence was purchased from her by Peel 's literary executors , the fifth Earl Stanhope and Edward , Viscount Cardwell [ qq.v. ] , and destroyed except for the two volumes incorporated in the Peel papers , now in the British Library , and letters of his own retained by Lord Stanhope . |
| 10 | That question was decided for her in a most terrible way . |
| 11 | But then she realised that the customer in question was looking at her as if he could read her thoughts — and found them highly amusing . |
| 12 | However , the marquis was looking at her with affection and she took courage in both hands . |
| 13 | Barium was forced down her with only minimal explanation , and when I protested the radiologist swore and told me to ‘ mind my place ’ while the assisting radiographer quickly looked away . |
| 14 | The medal was handed to her on a velvet cushion and she bent down and hung it on a little hook with which we had each been provided on arrival . |
| 15 | An awful suspicion was growing in her like some bizarre fungus from a tiny spore . |
| 16 | She had just had the most beautiful experience of her whole life and Roman was looking at her as if she had cheated him . |
| 17 | Rune was waiting for her in the foyer as she stepped out of the lift . |
| 18 | Signora ! ’ as a ripe fruit or some trinket or other was thrust before her for her inspection . |
| 19 | Word of the arrival in London of the new king was brought to her by Prince Richard . |
| 20 | A love of art was kindled in her by a Dominican priest in the 1930s , and indeed , a spiritual and moral consciousness beyond the usual lip-service to the ‘ otherness ’ of creative endeavour has always informed her involvement in art . |
| 21 | Entitled The Industrious Muse : Narrativity and Contradiction in the Industrial Novel ( the title was foisted on her by the publishers , the subtitle was her own ) it received enthusiastic if sparse reviews , and the publishers commissioned another book provisionally entitled Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females : Woman as Sign and Commodity in Victorian Fiction . |
| 22 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 23 | An important paper was read for her in 1900 to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by her cousin , Gerard Baldwin Brown [ q.v. ] , and thereafter controversial articles in learned journals culminated in 1912 in the publication by John Murray of The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles , which is still considered a seminal work on the subject . |
| 24 | She was squashed between the seat and the wheel , the seatbelt was cutting into her like a rubber band around a swelling finger . |
| 25 | The manager was waiting for her at the desk , deftly fidgeting with a half-stuffed peregrine falcon . |
| 26 | The tram was coming towards her from Boar Lane . |
| 27 | An old woman with a hunched-up back and a walking-stick was beckoning to her with one hand a few yards away . |
| 28 | The old man was staring at her in a most disconcerting way . |
| 29 | The back door was barred to her by the people she would have to pass in the kitchen . |
| 30 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |