Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced across the canal to where all the animals were gathered watching her . |
| 2 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 3 | After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name . |
| 4 | Immediate attempts were made to resuscitate her ; at one stage some electrical activity was restored to the heart but it proved of no avail . |
| 5 | Determined but polite efforts were made to interest her in the purchase of tomatoes , plums , oranges , artichokes , mussels , scallops , chickens and even a swordfish steak . |
| 6 | Efforts were made to revive her there but these efforts failed . |
| 7 | While attempts were made to revive her , an officer in the street dialled ‘ 999 , ’ urgently requesting an ambulance . |
| 8 | The two officers who were scribbling eyed her curiously . |
| 9 | Police said : ‘ We were told to find her quickly and tell her to lie still on the floor . ’ |
| 10 | In a small adjoining room next door a group of women who act as counsellors and administrators were waiting to meet her . |
| 11 | The coffin muffled all sounds from outside , and she wondered if they were going to leave her here , or whether she was being taken elsewhere . |
| 12 | She was worried they were going to hit her . |
| 13 | I know beca that 's only cos we were going to call her Lisa Marie were n't we ? |
| 14 | Well you er you , I thought you were going to ask her to look at . |
| 15 | Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan . |
| 16 | So we made them a cup of tea and hopefully they were going to talk her into it . |
| 17 | Even if she did tell them the whereabouts of the Grimoire , there was no way they were going to spare her or Julie . |
| 18 | Perhaps this was better , to be free to see where they were going to take her , to follow them , to keep out of their hands and then perhaps an opportunity would come to do something . |
| 19 | Poor Anna had been very indiscreet , the fascisti were going to arrest her or put pressure on her to leave the country for good , but he had been assured that if the principessa were to live again with him quietly in Rome nobody would touch her . |
| 20 | And I was very worried because the lady that was going to be paying for the job was just down there and if we were n't careful we were going to kill her with the wardrobe . |
| 21 | But maybe your Ministerial colleague is n't going right for the very top , McLeish thought with unreasonable conviction , and you were going to stop her working at Yeo Davis when you could . |
| 22 | If he were going to humiliate her , he could not have picked a better opportunity . |
| 23 | If I 'd known , ’ said Cadfael dubiously , ‘ that you were going to bring her back safely , and no great harm done , I might not have been so busy about worrying out how she ever went astray . ’ |
| 24 | We were going to tell her on her birthday , that 's two weeks from today . ’ |
| 25 | As soon as she was old enough , they were going to send her to stay with relatives in the city so that she could get a better education . |
| 26 | And erm they were going to send her for an interview straight away . |
| 27 | He was sure that if we checked enough pubs we were bound to find her . |
| 28 | She heard the front gate squeak open , and as she saw the two young Garda officers look up at the window and come slowly up her path , Kit Hegarty suddenly knew without any doubt what they were coming to tell her . |
| 29 | She had completed the agreed term of admission of two months and in accordance with the rules of the institution , the parish officers were asked to remove her ; before they could do so however , Mary Storey had died . |
| 30 | Oh Jenny is terrible , Sue and I decided were go to see her today because we had a message that she was in hospital , so we bought her a plant and we were on our way to see today |