Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] her [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income . |
| 13 | It was that which was cutting her in two as she dangled from it . |
| 14 | Three men who were visiting her in the flat were also attacked and beaten . |
| 15 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 16 | She had charm , a way of making you feel that you were joining her in some harmless conspiracy . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That was only because you were tearing her to pieces . |
| 19 | Juliet explained how it had all started , then she found she was telling her about Mrs Maybury and Celia . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mrs Brooks ' dog was almost run over recently as she was putting her into the car . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She had told him she was promised that evening to Charles Harvey , who was taking her to Jeffrey Archer 's party . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | One was telling her to ‘ cheer-up , cheer-up ! |
| 28 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 29 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 30 | The people of the Beastline were ranged directly ahead , facing her , as she had asked , and they were watching her with animal stillness . |