Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 2 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 3 | Later , on their way home , Katherine suddenly realized what it was that had been troubling her throughout the evening . |
| 4 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 5 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 6 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 7 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 8 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 9 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 10 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 11 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |