Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] her [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost as if someone were keeping her away from trouble . |
| 2 | She could see , as plain as the nose on her face , that here was a man of the self-centred , philandering , dangerous variety , the kind of man no girl in her right mind would risk getting involved with … so how come her hormones were letting her down in this maddening way ? |
| 3 | Those wicked dark eyes of his were lifting her up into another planet . |
| 4 | They were boys of fifteen or sixteen and they were watching her keenly from a position by the railings at the far corner of the church . |
| 5 | Tessa and Mrs. Mounce , he knew , were watching her out of the corner of their eyes too , as silent and overawed as he was himself . |
| 6 | The boss said you were to take her out for as long as you wanted , sir . |
| 7 | She was easing her back with her hands , happy with the shoes near to completion , when young Will returned . |
| 8 | They were in the bedroom and he was tucking her in under the quilt , stroking her forehead , pushing back the damp strands of blonde hair where her tears had soaked them . |
| 9 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
| 10 | Hilary was depressed at your long absence ; I was cheering her up with photographs of your sporting exploits , which hang , as you know , in the master bedroom . |
| 11 | Leith broke off , suddenly appalled that he must think that his cousin Travis was helping her out with her mortgage repayments . |
| 12 | As the girl played the woman dilated her nostrils and rose slightly off the piano stool , as if someone was drawing her up by an invisible wire attached to the crown of her head . |
| 13 | Then , before she could answer , he had reached down to take hold of her and was drawing her firmly to her feet . |
| 14 | Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp . |
| 15 | A few weeks after their visit to the Peristrephic Panorama , her father was rowing her slowly across the serpentine lake on the neighbouring estate of Lord F- . |
| 16 | At her worst , on the third night , faint from lack of food , her throat parched with thirst , she had a crazy idea that the storm was singling her out for punishment , was expending its venom to get at her . |
| 17 | Nothing could dent the self belief that was driving her on to new heights . |
| 18 | and erm she li she 's in Egham and her boyfriend came down and was driving her back to Sheffield and then driving back again here on Monday so she got a free journey home . |
| 19 | ‘ Ruggiero was driving her back from Rome late one night , and somehow the car left the road and ended up against a tree . |
| 20 | Then , making their apologies to the professor and his wife , he was whisking her off towards the dance-floor . |
| 21 | She was confused , one of her friends was picking her up at the studios that afternoon , not M. Apéritif , but a doe-eyed Persian who was — he said — training to be an engineer . |
| 22 | Melissa was beginning to wish the conversation had never started ; the last thing she wanted was to become embroiled in a dispute between two women she hardly knew , but Rose was looking her squarely in the eye as if demanding a response to her outburst . |
| 23 | Joe , in fact , was looking her straight in the eye . |
| 24 | ‘ I was to pick her up by the Souk Al-Gadira . ’ |
| 25 | As he was speaking , he was pushing her relentlessly towards the bottom of the stairs . |
| 26 | In a flash he was pushing her away from the path they were making and into the cover of the undergrowth . |
| 27 | In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting . |
| 28 | Then he was pulling her down over him , turning her in his arms , twining her limbs around his own , filling up her emptiness , tending her craving with all the knowledge he possessed . |
| 29 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 30 | A moment later , with a curt ‘ Follow me ’ , he was leading her down to the end of the corridor , then along a short passageway off to the right . |