Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
2 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
3 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
4 | Mrs Brooks ' dog was almost run over recently as she was putting her into the car . |
5 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
8 | He was watching her with a glint of amusement in those remarkable eyes . |
9 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
10 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |
11 | He was watching her with a strange look on his face , half amusement , half something else , and she felt herself bristle . |
12 | That curious flicker was in his eyes again ; he was watching her with an intensity that was unnerving . |
13 | He was watching her like a cat with a mouse . |
14 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
15 | He was swinging her into the sailboat , then , with a broad grin , leaping in beside her . |
16 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
17 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
18 | And then he was dragging her by the hands , racing across the lawn , nearly pulling her arm from its socket , crashing through the kitchen door , crying aloud so that it sounded like a whoop of triumph . |
19 | He was draining her from every angle , mentally , physically and … and sexually . |
20 | She understood that he was imagining her in a swimsuit with sleek hair at the local pool or in a short , white dress on a tennis court . |
21 | He was telling her about a holiday in Greece instead . |
22 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
23 | It was then she realised that he was lambasting her with the tennis racquet . |
24 | As the abrasive words poured into her ears , he was moving her against an ornamental lacquerwork cabinet of hip height and bending her backwards , a hand dealing with the intricacies of her bustier with a sure skill that bore witness to a wealth of experience with even the most esoteric of feminine garments . |
25 | And then , almost at once , his iron control seemed to snap , and he was kissing her with a frenzied , pent-up , impatient longing that was totally beyond anything she 'd ever experienced before . |
26 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |
27 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
28 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
29 | He was leading her to the edge of the dance-floor . |
30 | On long strides he was leading her towards the door , oblivious to her inner anguish . |