Example sentences of "had been [verb] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 2 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 3 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 4 | His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination . |
| 5 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 6 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 7 | Later , on their way home , Katherine suddenly realized what it was that had been troubling her throughout the evening . |
| 8 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 9 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |