Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] her [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her parents were always telling her off for going on about things being boring . |
| 2 | I was merely taking her down to London for a day . |
| 3 | He was just marrying her out of ambition — how many more times did she have to remind herself of that ? |
| 4 | I was still holding her back from the window , and wondering what to do next , when Mr Edgar entered . |
| 5 | Josie said that she did n't usually get in until around six , but that there were a few extra jobs that she wanted to finish off ; Lucy had the feeling , but did n't say so , that the main point of the exercise was probably to get her out of the way before the slender red-haired woman arrived home . |