Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | She had charm , a way of making you feel that you were joining her in some harmless conspiracy . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ That was only because you were tearing her to pieces . |
| 13 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 14 | Juliet explained how it had all started , then she found she was telling her about Mrs Maybury and Celia . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mrs Brooks ' dog was almost run over recently as she was putting her into the car . |
| 17 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 18 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 19 | The people of the Beastline were ranged directly ahead , facing her , as she had asked , and they were watching her with animal stillness . |
| 20 | Poor Mrs got two lots of children and they were driving her up the wall ! |
| 21 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 22 | This would take some courage but something inside her was urging her to be honest . |
| 23 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |
| 24 | Such a touching story , Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall — ’ and he spoke her name as though he were striking her with it ‘ — and all a lie . |
| 25 | Johnny 's words had left her feeling inadequate , as though he were presenting her with some enormous challenge which she did not feel equal to meet . |
| 26 | The examination under anaesthesia without consent is inexplicable ( unless it was to punish her for having refused examination when conscious ) . |
| 27 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 28 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
| 29 | Gradually she came to realize that it was reminding her of her father — her father and the allotment . |
| 30 | ‘ Sabine Jourdain was murdered and it looks as though it was to prevent her from talking . ’ |