Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was impressing herself with her ability to inject a casual calm into her voice , to compose her features in the darkness of the car . |
| 2 | Leaving Alexandra at her door , unkissed , untouched , was one of the hardest things he had ever done , especially when what he had really wanted to do was to carry her into her bedroom — or his — and make love to her . |
| 3 | A shower unit caught fire while a woman was using it at her home in Weston Crescent , Norton . |
| 4 | Gradually she came to realize that it was reminding her of her father — her father and the allotment . |
| 5 | If Madeleine was enjoying herself with her ‘ Pogo ’ , he could enjoy himself with Cora-Beth , who probably cared about him far more than Madeleine ever had . |
| 6 | She frequently made use of Coptic craftsmen and one of them , a leather-worker , who had been repairing a handbag she was particularly fond of , was bringing it to her flat with his small son when he was attacked by a gang of youths . |
| 7 | Rune Christensen was amusing himself at her expense . |
| 8 | Maggie had the greatest desire to answer in Spanish and confound him , but in the first place she was n't exactly up to it , and secondly she was keeping it under her hat . |
| 9 | She finished eating , hoping she could elude Roman and get to Dana 's hotel without him , but as soon as she put her cup down he was urging her to her feet . |
| 10 | She was confusing him with her old dreams . |
| 11 | Felicity was Saving Herself for her Wedding Night . |
| 12 | Behind Duvall , Jimmy could see that Barbara was pulling herself to her feet . |
| 13 | ‘ Give me that , ’ said Tabitha , snatching the melon from Saskia , who was balancing it on her arm , rolling it slowly from her shoulder down to her wrist and back again . |
| 14 | Chicken Likken was holding him to her breast with her wings , trying to comfort him . |
| 15 | Defries realized that she was holding something in her right hand . |
| 16 | Claudia lifted her arms , putting them round his broad shoulders , hardly conscious that he was divesting her of her jacket and blouse . |
| 17 | She longed for some proper clothes too — having to wear one of his large baggy T-shirts was doing nothing for her self-image . |
| 18 | She was doing it with her usual spare , economical elegance , but also with the air of one who would rather be doing something else . |
| 19 | In the taxi , while he was dropping her at her small house in Fulham , she made an effort to regain some inch of the indispensable contact she had squandered , but there seemed no way of doing it . |
| 20 | It seemed like only moments after Shiona had fallen asleep that the light snapped on in the compartment and a strong hand was dragging her from her bunk . |
| 21 | She was clutching something in her right hand , something covered in white powder , as she weaved towards us and sat down heavily and out of breath . |
| 22 | She was clutching one in her hand ; its edge dug into her palm . |
| 23 | She groped vaguely for her handbag , then found that Luke was putting it into her hand . |
| 24 | For one who was convinced of the merits of control , both control of self and regulation of one 's environment , she was discovering something beyond her range of command ; her children . |
| 25 | Steve looked across at Ruth who had gone deathly pale and was watching him with her mouth gaping open . |
| 26 | She could look neither at Dr Neil , nor at the tasteless harpy who was tormenting him with her tactlessness . |
| 27 | So she held back on her questioning , though she somehow found that she was telling him of her love of music and how Janáček 's lively sixth movement was one of her particular favourites . |
| 28 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 29 | For whatever that small voice of intuition was telling her about her destiny , common-sense decreed that the Prince already had a full hand of potential suitors . |
| 30 | I imagined it was to occupy her in her loneliness . |