Example sentences of "was [verb] she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 2 | When , in the summer of 1983 , she went to England for a few weeks , she took a French companion whose role was to instruct her during every spare moment . |
| 3 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 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 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |
| 6 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 7 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 8 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 9 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But Michele was urging her down the steps , and the gondolier had reached up to assist her into the gently rocking craft . |
| 12 | Fabia got out , then found that before she could say a word , Ven was escorting her inside the hotel and waiting with her while she collected her room key . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 15 | But by then , Nicolo was hurrying her down the steps , out of the building , and into a black Mercedes limousine . |
| 16 | Then he was leading her across the terrace and through the open doors of the villa , across the drawing-room and out into the hall . |
| 17 | He was leading her to the edge of the dance-floor . |
| 18 | On long strides he was leading her towards the door , oblivious to her inner anguish . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Carolyn was ignoring her like a sulky child . |
| 21 | Now he was turning her into a stammering schoolgirl ! |
| 22 | As the abrasive words poured into her ears , he was moving her against an ornamental lacquerwork cabinet of hip height and bending her backwards , a hand dealing with the intricacies of her bustier with a sure skill that bore witness to a wealth of experience with even the most esoteric of feminine garments . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Their eyes met , sheer delight in each other in both pairs , and then Luke was kissing her on the mouth with so much loving tenderness that she could n't speak for quite a while . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income . |
| 28 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 29 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 30 | I was not accompanying her to the home but was treating her to a taxi all the way . |