Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] she [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 2 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 3 | She had guessed Robert and others were manipulating her as a chess piece in a game whose rules and ultimate aim were a mystery . |
| 4 | Erika was not too sure about the girl in Pankow , half suspecting that Fräulein Silber was using her as a means of putting pressure on herself . |
| 5 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 6 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 7 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 8 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 9 | She understood that he was imagining her in a swimsuit with sleek hair at the local pool or in a short , white dress on a tennis court . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Carolyn was ignoring her like a sulky child . |
| 12 | Now he was turning her into a stammering schoolgirl ! |
| 13 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 14 | And then , almost at once , his iron control seemed to snap , and he was kissing her with a frenzied , pent-up , impatient longing that was totally beyond anything she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 15 | It was all she was capable of saying for quite some time , for he had captured her lips again and was kissing her with a deeper intensity . |
| 16 | She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income . |
| 17 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 18 | I was not accompanying her to the home but was treating her to a taxi all the way . |
| 19 | as if he was treating her like a child … |
| 20 | He was treating her like a cheap pick-up . |
| 21 | Clamping her mouth shut , she stormed after him , suddenly furious that everyone was treating her like a child . |
| 22 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Niall Grant was the most disturbingly sexually arousing man she had ever met , and his nearness was affecting her in a way she had n't dreamed possible . |
| 25 | Félix was regarding her with a look of amused tenderness . |
| 26 | Guido was inviting her with a wave of his hand to take a seat on one of the sofas — there were four , all in soft pastel colours and piled with cushions . |
| 27 | Yanto grunted some inaudible remark and was introducing her to a goggle-eyed Billy as Nigger joined them . |
| 28 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 29 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
| 30 | He was watching her with a glint of amusement in those remarkable eyes . |