Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 2 | I 'd been with her for 12 hours at the delivery of her beautiful baby daughter . |
| 3 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 4 | In her own way , she had been every bit as insulting to him as he 'd been to her . |
| 5 | And I was with her till I left her somewhere in Southampton , I 'd been in her a good while too . |
| 6 | ‘ Like I said , I enjoyed being with her , but you would have to be some kind of retard to get turned on in those scenes by thinking I am kissing a sex symbol … |
| 7 | ‘ All the same , ’ she said , ‘ all I meant was for her to break a leg . ’ |
| 8 | Marrying him was one thing ; loving him and defying her family and Father Dowd had taken more courage and determination than she knew was in her . |
| 9 | Of their own volition , her hands tightened in his hair , forcing his head forwards , and she responded to his kiss with a passion she never knew was within her . |
| 10 | Well then her mother died last Feb. with some awful cancer and her daughter had been beside her when she died and probably learnt then about the secret which must have burdened her poor mother 's life for so many years . |
| 11 | Her threat to leave the job had been an idle one , and whatever ill feeling there had been between her and Jenny must have been papered over . |
| 12 | She was able to let him go as he was now because she had clarified and confirmed what he had been to her . |
| 13 | How cruel he had been to her ! |
| 14 | Convenience , that 's what it had been for her — little more . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's how dependent he had been on her . ’ |
| 16 | First her sister had forgotten to inform Nora , then this policeman said Nora had been with her and Jerome in the Jaguar . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ I had been with her for three years , in love . |
| 18 | She waited and waited , the feeling of living a nightmare that had been with her ever since Thursday intensifying . |
| 19 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 20 | Lord Archer and Lord Healey , both in Santa Claus outfits , had been with her at an event in honour of Headway , the National Head Injuries Association . |
| 21 | He had the notion that she was mocking him , and the anger he had felt earlier returned in a different form , a determination to excel , to beat other men who had been with her . |
| 22 | She stared away from them and up beyond the cage towards the grey sky , and Creggan saw in her eyes a longing and a hope that he sensed had been with her all her long life , and was with her even now when he saw she was so near death . |
| 23 | ‘ Your spy ? ’ she gibed , recalling that Cavell had been with her when another DJ had telephoned to ask her out to a street market that only operated at night . |
| 24 | He came to me He had a problem , he and I were good friends and he said that erm that this one girl s erm Michelle , was his favourite wife and that he had been with her since erm she was twelve . |
| 25 | The old man had been with her in the shop that morning , the same as ever , gossiping about the business , about the vagaries of their customers , the oddities of town councillors and the perverseness of families — all with a humour that was wickedly spiced . |
| 26 | She had not realized how close the birds and the snow and the deadwoods had been behind her . |
| 27 | The thought had been inside her ever since he had spoken , though she had continually pushed it away . |
| 28 | Everything was at an end — the hope , the joy , the new happiness that had been in her . |
| 29 | It was a longing that had been in her for always . |