Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | The field-worker was able to spend as much time in the field as the principal investigator thought necessary , and no restrictions were placed on her going out on patrol , travelling in vehicles , or going to incidents of routine police duty . |
| 2 | Lady Londonderry was greatly admired at the Russian Court and some of the Londonderry family jewels — the Down Diamonds and the parure and cross were given to her by the Russian Emperor Alexander I. |
| 3 | No thought of the future , whether it was to be spent in jail or exile or even in restored fortune — no thought of it was to mar those living moments as they were given to her . |
| 4 | As many teachers were unable to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Society when formal thanks were given and a presentation made to Hilary Weedon on the completion of her four year term of office as Chairman of the Executive Committee special thanks were given to her by Betty Syrett on behalf of the teachers . |
| 5 | Congratulations and good wishes were given to her . |
| 6 | Anna opened her eyes and wondered why they were fussing round her . |
| 7 | Somewhere down below his neat , desperate parents were bellowing at her to stop but she was n't going to . |
| 8 | As she knelt there , water soaking into her furs , it seemed to her that the masks were singing to her . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe we could light a fire , ’ she suggested , looking briefly up at him , and feeling somewhat disconcerted at the way those eyes were resting on her . |
| 10 | " It 's that boy , Timothy Gedge , " Lavinia had said , and then had called out to the twins , who were clamouring for her upstairs somewhere . |
| 11 | She felt as if an express train were speeding towards her — but her feet were set in concrete and there was nothing she could do . |
| 12 | A girl in a mackintosh and low-heeled pumps , pale stockings , and a short glossy bob was running across the dirt floor of the yard ; the hulks of cars were heaped behind her , the record of fatal crashes scored legibly in their twisted driveshafts , passenger doors stove in , and disembowelled interiors where plugs and levers hung from strings like fallen teeth on the ends of nerves . |
| 13 | He laughed softly , and soon his strong body and long legs were pressed against her . |
| 14 | By the time the train moved off she could see nothing at all out of the window , she could scarcely see the window , so many people were squeezed between her and it . |
| 15 | But she said that almost as if it were expected of her rather than with conviction — and the family knew it . |
| 16 | Other possibilities were opening before her . |
| 17 | Would n't she always feel a fool , knowing they were laughing at her and her Irish ways . |
| 18 | She saw that Jennifer and Vanessa were laughing at her and something inside her stirred . |
| 19 | The eyes on her back were laughing at her , judging her . |
| 20 | The desperate words , both protest and plea , were torn from her . |
| 21 | Her proposition had been simple and direct — if he were to work for her , she would make him wealthy and ensure him a place in society . |
| 22 | When they were so intimately joined , how would she not know if he were cheating on her ? |
| 23 | She felt funny , as if things were happening inside her . |
| 24 | Not that she agreed with him — if he were to appear before her right now , she 'd still defend what she did and the way she did it to the hilt . |
| 25 | Myra sobbed as she told me that , although many men were attracted to her — and she to them — as soon as the relationship reached the stage of even the most innocent physical contact , such as a gentle kiss or even holding hands , something in her forced her to draw back and run away from the situation . |
| 26 | By that time you were attracted to her , and to defer the session would give you more time to get to know her . |
| 27 | It was rumoured that he and Blanche were lovers and that many of his poems were addressed to her . |
| 28 | Sometimes she told herself the postcards , or exercise book scrawls , were messages to Daniel , but one should never , she considered , ignore surface meanings in favour of implications and the damned things were addressed to her , to Frederica . |
| 29 | People were pressing against her . |
| 30 | And since they could hardly do that in so public a place , these ragged youths half her size who were pressing around her , she was not really afraid . |