Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I was bouncing her on my knee ’
2 I was telling her about our need of somewhere to meet , and she said she would love to help us but that Mr. Olinton would n't hear of it .
3 I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having .
4 The other day I was telling her about something that had happened , crying as I told the story , and she started crying too .
5 I was telling her about
6 So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they
7 I was carrying her in my arms out of hospital .
8 If I 'm caught , I 'll say I was lifting her for myself . ’
9 I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’
10 Smiling at her over people 's shoulders while she could not move because someone was telling her at length how much she must be missing her mother .
11 He made love to her with a driving desperation that matched the excesses which were to shock her in retrospect , and if his flesh bore the imprint of her nails and teeth afterwards , there were faint reciprocal marks on her body , mostly the legacy of an erotically suckling mouth .
12 She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides .
13 She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income .
14 It was that which was cutting her in two as she dangled from it .
15 Three men who were visiting her in the flat were also attacked and beaten .
16 She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence .
17 She had charm , a way of making you feel that you were joining her in some harmless conspiracy .
18 ‘ I have n't worked it out in detail , ’ Melissa admitted , ‘ but I was thinking about it while you were putting her through your puff-and-blow routine … ’
19 ‘ That was only because you were tearing her to pieces .
20 And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’
21 Juliet explained how it had all started , then she found she was telling her about Mrs Maybury and Celia .
22 One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School .
23 Mrs Brooks ' dog was almost run over recently as she was putting her into the car .
24 The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking .
25 She had told him she was promised that evening to Charles Harvey , who was taking her to Jeffrey Archer 's party .
26 There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station .
27 It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime .
28 It had suddenly borne in upon her that it was almost midnight and that she was in a strange flat in a strange city , with a strange man who was plying her with champagne .
29 One was telling her to ‘ cheer-up , cheer-up !
30 She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut .
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