Example sentences of "was [verb] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ilse wore no bra , and was twirling her panties around her head in no time . |
| 2 | Lydia was twirling her sherry glass and peering into it thoughtfully . |
| 3 | She 'd had enough of the pettiness of living with parents and the irrelevance of school was smothering her head . |
| 4 | Her head resting on her knees , she tried to contain the pain that was clenching her stomach muscles into a tight knot . |
| 5 | With her right eye , she saw the staircase before her , and the landing above , but with the left side of her sight , she was seeing her past replayed . |
| 6 | If it had n't been for the triumphant glitter in his eyes she would have been lost ; as it was , he had pulled her zip down and was easing her dress from her shoulders by the time she 'd steeled herself to thrust hard against his shoulders with both hands and roll off the bed . |
| 7 | She had gone away to escape Lowell , but the cottage was part of both of them and it was demanding her presence . |
| 8 | The man who was to kill her mother rode calmly up the drive of the great house . |
| 9 | For the lady — accompanied by red admirals , peacocks and common blues — was fluttering her wings in the new butterfly centre . |
| 10 | Chorus numbers were sung in full , and the Hoflin girl 's little solo in Act Two was performed from beginning to end , but Ingrid , who was singing Lisa — not such a heavy role , but she still had a couple of solos — was resting her voice again , and the rest just walked and hummed their roles . |
| 11 | She was resting her head on his shoulder . |
| 12 | He considered that Liza was behaving disgracefully , maintained that Harriet was encouraging her daughter in what he called ‘ selfish laziness ’ and that , sorry as he was about the death of John Carrow , surely Harriet had not long lost her own husband and it was up to Liza to give her more support . |
| 13 | And before Sally-Anne could do anything about it the tall young man was tucking her arm in his , and walking her briskly along at such a pace that she was horrified to discover that Rose and her companion were gone , lost behind them as fresh crowds emerged from yet more emptying theatres and dance halls . |
| 14 | But even as Elizabeth Mowbray was finalising her plans for departure , Fate intervened . |
| 15 | Lady Grunte , who was cooking her lover 's lunch in Solihull at that very moment , had warned her husband off the Young Conservatives . |
| 16 | Broadway 's Fulton theatre was given her name in 1955 to celebrate her 50th year on the stage but was torn down in 1982 to make way for a hotel . |
| 17 | The baby , a girl , was given her mother 's name : Jeanne Hébuterne . |
| 18 | All it had done was make her position more intolerable . |
| 19 | It was the last time Cherry , 45 , was to see her common-law husband alive . |
| 20 | I was to see her years later , and talk much of Eliot , they were fellow-citizens of St Louis , Missouri , and almost of the same age . |
| 21 | ‘ One woman , very articulate — from Jersey , I think — said how wonderful it was to see her husband ! ’ |
| 22 | She was gathering her strength for the season of ice that must settle over Munding Rectory . |
| 23 | I would n't care if my Mandy was flashing her clout on the Old Kent Road if it meant having her back ! |
| 24 | Already , Jay 's Hollywood imagination was building her beds of rose-petals under crystal minarets . |
| 25 | But Mrs McWhirter , cutting her losses , spent most of her time away , on the excuse that she was nursing her mother ; and the daughter , if she felt like coming home , preferred to regard home as where her mother was . |
| 26 | It was n't until later when she was helping her mother to wash up and her father was still outside with Jennifer that Rachel had the opportunity to explain the situation . |
| 27 | One night , as Tempy was helping her undress , she determined to tackle Stephen the next day . |
| 28 | Ada was helping her father , the local postman , and had to run the house for her old mother ; Nives had opened a hairdresser 's shop ; and Nora was already apprenticed to a tailor , |
| 29 | It was the following weekend and Rachel was helping her father , who had just given the lawn its last cut before winter , to dispose of the grass cuttings on the compost heap at the bottom of the garden . |
| 30 | He could see she was recovering her composure . |