Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officers had been telling her about this particular woman who was very lonely . |
| 2 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 3 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
| 4 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 5 | That had been to strengthen her for all the troubles and problems she 'd had to deal with . |