Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] she [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't quite sure what he was summing her up for but he was certainly doing that . |
| 2 | He was watching her closely from beneath his brows , his dark face inscrutable . |
| 3 | Some reason why he was watching her cautiously as if she would erupt with anger . |
| 4 | She was also clutching his knee and he was swinging her up on his foot at every step and she was screaming and laughing . |
| 5 | In a flash he was pushing her away from the path they were making and into the cover of the undergrowth . |
| 6 | As he was speaking , he was pushing her relentlessly towards the bottom of the stairs . |
| 7 | They were in the bedroom and he was tucking her in under the quilt , stroking her forehead , pushing back the damp strands of blonde hair where her tears had soaked them . |
| 8 | Then , making their apologies to the professor and his wife , he was whisking her off towards the dance-floor . |
| 9 | He was holding her there without duress , pinning her where she sat by the sheer magnetism of his physical presence . |
| 10 | He was kissing her now with a delicate urgency , her cheeks and temples , her closed eyelids and long , slender throat . |
| 11 | Luke 's hands were cradling her head and he was kissing her all over her face with an adoring tenderness she would never have dreamed was possible . |
| 12 | Those moments did not last for long , however , because she was soon hearing again his silky , and infuriating , declaration that he was taking her over as his girlfriend . |
| 13 | I thought he was taking her away for ever . |
| 14 | A moment later , with a curt ‘ Follow me ’ , he was leading her down to the end of the corridor , then along a short passageway off to the right . |
| 15 | He was putting her away from him , because in the end Rebecca was vulnerable , and she meant more to him than anyone else . |
| 16 | Yet , unbelievably , he was putting her away from him , his movements rough , unco-ordinated . |
| 17 | He was making her out to be a two-faced liar . |
| 18 | He moved his pelvis strongly against her own until she squirmed in his arms , then somehow they were across the room and he was forcing her down among the silk cushions of the four-poster , fingers already lifting the thin wool sweater beneath her unbuttoned jacket , seeking the pulsing softness of her breasts with the mark of desire across his face . |
| 19 | Then he was pulling her down over him , turning her in his arms , twining her limbs around his own , filling up her emptiness , tending her craving with all the knowledge he possessed . |
| 20 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 21 | Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp . |
| 22 | Her pride had taken a hell of a beating at his hands because he was treating her exactly as if she were a sometimes tiresome younger sister . |
| 23 | He was scrutinising her openly in return . |