Example sentences of "was [verb] her [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was gathering her strength for the season of ice that must settle over Munding Rectory . |
| 2 | I would n't care if my Mandy was flashing her clout on the Old Kent Road if it meant having her back ! |
| 3 | On a Sunday in February she was eating her lunch in the cottage where she lived , when d'Urberville knocked at the door . |
| 4 | she was enjoying her walk down the quiet country lane towards the riverbank . |
| 5 | Richardson , 37 , who met the the girl while she was walking her dog beside the river near her home in King 's Lynn , Norfolk , was given a 16-month sentence for having sex with a girl under 16 , the legal age of consent . |
| 6 | She was walking her dog past the house just now and I thought I might bring her in . |
| 7 | Maggie was stabbing her finger at the different plates on the table , and her aunt wagged her head and pursed her lips before she said , flatly , ‘ I 'm courting one of the airmen ; he comes to Donald 's farm . ’ |
| 8 | The man had his fingers around the woman 's throat and was banging her head against the back of the seat . |
| 9 | In the parallel line of the submissive , a pretty , dark girl of about twenty was emptying her handbag on the instructions of a uniformed harridan . |
| 10 | Apparently at this particular time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road in question and traffic from one direction had halted in order to allow that the young girl and her friend to cross the road they began to cross on the zebra crossing but , as she reached the centre of the road Mrs was driving her vehicle in the opposite direction and she failed to stop the young girl , in her teens , was unable to take , avoiding acci action and she was knocked down as she crossed the road . |
| 11 | They had met at the close mouth as she was inserting her key into the heavy outer door . |
| 12 | A wholly unreasonable disappointment was souring her pleasure in the trip . |
| 13 | So he had n't been here this morning while she was forcing her way through the woods ? |
| 14 | Soon after her Moose Jaw success with poems in the Times-Herald she was selling her verse to the Winnipeg Free Press , the Calgary Herald , the Vancouver Province , the Toronto Star and the agricultural publication , The Saskatchewan Farmer . |
| 15 | She was combing her hair at the mirror . |
| 16 | In his hand , Catherine could see that he was holding her article on the NSPCC . |
| 17 | That day she was holding her son on the balcony of the flat and she dropped the child to the ground below . |
| 18 | A year or so later she told everyone that they must make an annual pilgrimage to that city , where she had a cousin in the catering trade who was prepared to give them all cheap rates , but by that time Rose was losing her grip on the faithful . |
| 19 | Linda herself was doing her homework at the table in the corner . |
| 20 | But just as she was burying her head beneath the blanket in utter dejection Ella came to bed , and she passed on the most extraordinary piece of news . |
| 21 | and she was having her drink at the same time |
| 22 | As the taxi sped them into Rome , Nora had no chance to look at the view ; she was kept busy listening to Louise , who was giving her assessment of the situation . |
| 23 | She too was taking her degree in the social sciences . |
| 24 | ‘ If only I had some money put by , ’ he told Rosie , as he was taking her home to the pub one evening . |
| 25 | Meanwhile Laura Davies , who missed the cut , was winging her way to the Nabisco Dinah Shore . |
| 26 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 27 | She was awarded her fellowship of the British Psychological Society in early recognition of her distinguished work for child guidance in Scotland . |
| 28 | Well , Sue 's hurt her shoulder cos she was carrying her bag on the train you know coming back from Birmingham . |
| 29 | The series of events began at the CastleCourt shopping complex at teatime last night when a woman , with her one-year-old child , was putting her shopping in the back of her Ford Granada . |
| 30 | She was putting her trust in the wrong people again . |