Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to acknowledge that she was having extremely strong feelings for her enigmatic boss — feelings that were defying her ability to control them . |
| 2 | She feels there is a real shortage of teaching jobs and says if she were to lose her job tomorrow she would want to do something . |
| 3 | Her maids were unfolding her cloak , and the page who held her boots was kneeling so that she could put her feet into them . |
| 4 | And she had to go out , but no Bernard now you forgot this bit here , she was , er house , the decorators were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning ! |
| 5 | They were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning right , and Margot |
| 6 | And er , Margot was behind the and they were painting her house and somebody fell and she had to go and give them artificial respiration or something did n't she ? |
| 7 | Luke 's hands were cradling her head and he was kissing her all over her face with an adoring tenderness she would never have dreamed was possible . |
| 8 | For some reason the thought that he seriously did n't care one way or another what her opinions were wounded her pride more than she would ever have admitted in a million years . |
| 9 | Those butterflies were storming her stomach again . |
| 10 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 11 | The school sent Rachaela a letter saying that Ruth 's frequent absences were causing her work to suffer . |
| 12 | Then his hands were cupping her face and before she could argue or gather her wits , he had taken her startled mouth with his own . |
| 13 | It had been a part of her intention in coming here to banish those shades : already it seemed they were darkening her mind as surely as they still lowered across her father 's . |
| 14 | Years later , when I heard that Inez had left her husband and that the police were investigating her disappearance , I was tempted to carry the matter a little further . |
| 15 | It was not , at present , the eternal verities which were occupying her mind but the simple gnawing question of what Memet had been up to behind her back . |
| 16 | Maria kept her face expressionless , but she felt as if merciless fingers were mangling her heart . |
| 17 | If I remember correctly , neither of us were to cross her line of vision again , ever . ’ |
| 18 | Tears were flooding her face and she wiped them frantically away with the sleeve of her jersey . |
| 19 | He said when were moving her bedroom around , if he , if we give him a shout he 'll come over and help . |
| 20 | The incident at Nadirpur 's apartment had clearly brought home to Chantal the sort of people who were holding her fiancé in Beirut . |
| 21 | Gazing blankly at the colour chart that was thrust into her hands , she felt as though she was falling apart at the seams , as though all the muscles and tendons that were holding her body together were snapping one by one . |
| 22 | Although she was smiling there was something tight in her voice , as if she were holding her breath . |
| 23 | If only people were the same , Harriet Shakespeare would not be staring up at a house where terrorists were holding her son . |
| 24 | I thought you were teaching her calculus . ’ |
| 25 | Luke 's eyes were scanning her face . |
| 26 | Curiously husky , his voice beguiled her ears as powerfully as his hands were seducing her body , caressing her naked skin beneath her simple top , tantalising the sensitised surface , warm and demanding , seeking the clasp of her flesh-coloured bra , dismantling it with a sure touch that might have come from practice but could equally well have been attributed to simple deduction , except that nothing was simple about this man who had already knowingly conquered her body … åd , unknowingly , her heart as well . |
| 27 | They were both out for most of the time , and my mother was torn between relief that they were n't under her feet all the time and resentment that they were treating her house like an hotel . |
| 28 | Unless you were threatening her life ? |
| 29 | When Birdie Mac in the sweet shop was unwise enough to say to Benny that those slabs of toffee were doing her no good at all , Eve 's small face flashed in a fury . |
| 30 | Her fingers were gripping her dress , and she knew that she was trembling . |