Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] her [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police were driving her around Soweto , wanting her to identify key activists . |
| 2 | ‘ That was only because you were tearing her to pieces . |
| 3 | Susan had no clothes on , and the two men were showering her from head to foot — in her eyes , inside her ears , everywhere . |
| 4 | The thorns were cutting her to pieces . |
| 5 | The dark eyes were raking her from head to toe , appraising her — from the long , tousled russet hair to the bare feet protruding from beneath the hem of her wrap . |
| 6 | The people of the Beastline were ranged directly ahead , facing her , as she had asked , and they were watching her with animal stillness . |
| 7 | To her horror Benny realised that there were tears pouring down her face , and that a small circle of people were watching her in concern . |
| 8 | Julia knew that it could not be real because it brought with it even more horrible visions , in one of which Comfort and Anthony had her pinned to the ground and were hitting her with garden rakes with specially sharpened tines . |
| 9 | Going out with a man who , according to Dawn , was using her in order to achieve his own ends . |
| 10 | Leila did n't have the heart to tell him she doubted whether there 'd be much opportunity for him ever to do that , at least while he was helping her with Ari . |
| 11 | MUM-TO-BE Lynne Adams , 36 , gave birth to a girl on the M5 yesterday as husband Phil was driving her to hospital in Taunton , Somerset . |
| 12 | Helen was driving her to suicide , I could see that . |
| 13 | His constant invasion of her privacy was driving her to distraction . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was confusing her with Celeste , she thought impatiently . |
| 16 | He must n't touch her or she would shatter to pieces , fall on him and ask him why he was ignoring her in favour of her sister . |
| 17 | ‘ You can go and see Mrs M , ’ said my mother and I wondered whether her sense of grievance towards me was inclining her to spite . |
| 18 | Ian said he was fetching her at lunchtime . ’ |
| 19 | His kiss was betraying her into feelings she would have rather have held back . |
| 20 | But no , he was asking her about Mathilde , about Katherine . |
| 21 | Nina had her hand in the other girl 's handbag , and was begging her for money in exactly the same terms she had used on him while begging for heroin . |
| 22 | Lesley says Cindy left him because she felt he was tying her to DeKalb . |
| 23 | She had told him she was promised that evening to Charles Harvey , who was taking her to Jeffrey Archer 's party . |
| 24 | He was taking her to St Bartholomew 's , the hospital where he was a junior physician . |
| 25 | Her collarbone was ambushing her with surprise guerrilla raids of searing pain while her head was screaming revenge for the ordeals it had undergone during the past twelve hours . |
| 26 | The tug of war was still going on , just as fiercely as it ever had , only now Charles was tugging her towards Damian Flint while Jamie hurled accusations of betrayal . |
| 27 | He was watching her with eyes that blazed , not with passion but with cold satisfaction . |
| 28 | She glanced up with dread and peered into the sea of faces that was watching her with curiosity . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Juliet explained how it had all started , then she found she was telling her about Mrs Maybury and Celia . |