Example sentences of "was [verb] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mutinously she flicked her gaze back to where he was surveying her in stony silence . |
| 2 | Her lungs heaving , she fell against a tree , then slowly slid down the trunk to sit at its foot , her arms wrapped tight round her updrawn knees in an effort to hold in the pain and shock that was robbing her of coherent thought . |
| 3 | Guy Sterne was eyeing her with amused curiosity . |
| 4 | Her inner caution was warning her against this feeling , but was finding it hard to get through to her . |
| 5 | He was transporting her to another world , and she responded to him with uninhibited abandon . |
| 6 | As he spoke , he had already turned abruptly on his heel and was leading her in swift strides across the wide hallway . |
| 7 | He was kissing her with small caresses of his mouth , teasing her cheeks and nose , tempting her brows and the corners of her mouth , so that her breath grew shallow and her body leaned against his solid frame for support . |
| 8 | The idea was to use her for short patrols inshore and around the large estuaries and harbours of the south Coast . |
| 9 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 10 | The thing was to keep her as Brown Owl of the 2nd Longreen Pack . |
| 11 | It was that which was cutting her in two as she dangled from it . |
| 12 | Alina had assumed that Belov was taking her to another of the buildings , but it seemed now that he was going to lead her out of the settlement altogether . |
| 13 | The man was regarding her with natural surprise . |
| 14 | She looked at him warily to find that he was regarding her with unprecedented tenderness . |
| 15 | Fernie was regarding her with some awe . |
| 16 | ‘ It seems as if I really do need to lie down , ’ she said faintly , and then he had swept her off the ground and was carrying her to one of the low , comfortable sofas in a private alcove where donors who were feeling faint could eat and drink in peace and quiet as they recovered . |
| 17 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 18 | It was as if the bombing was draining her of all feeling , leaving her so spent that all she wanted to do was to close her eyes and not open them again until it was all over . |
| 19 | He was watching her with such quiet intensity that , for just an instant , she felt as if there were no one else in the square but the two of them . |
| 20 | It was hard to conceal the sudden rush of nerves she felt when she saw the way he was watching her with that barely hidden amusement . |
| 21 | He was watching her with that same intensity she 'd seen in his face before , the one that made his eyes seem like dark sapphires . |
| 22 | His lean and powerful body was relaxed in the black suit , long legs crossed towards her , chest turned towards her , and he was watching her with narrowed eyes , obviously rearranging his thoughts about her at a rate of knots . |
| 23 | There was a white line around his mouth and he was watching her with undisguised lust , as if he wanted her and hated himself for being so human . |
| 24 | Oswin was watching her with expressionless eyes . |
| 25 | Luke had stood up too now and was watching her with glittering eyes , either unaware of or unperturbed by the disarray of his own garments . |
| 26 | It was hard to think while he was watching her like that , and even harder to follow the sudden switch in the conversation . |
| 27 | As a result of her prosperity , uncertain though it often appeared , Catalonia began to appear as the model and exemplar of mercantile and industrial civilization , a role that was to bring her into sharp conflict with traditional values and interests . |
| 28 | He was teasing her with this leisurely foreplay , stoking the fires inside her until they reached the point where they could no longer be contained . |