Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] her at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smiling at her over people 's shoulders while she could not move because someone was telling her at length how much she must be missing her mother . |
| 2 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 3 | In the taxi , while he was dropping her at her small house in Fulham , she made an effort to regain some inch of the indispensable contact she had squandered , but there seemed no way of doing it . |
| 4 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 5 | Ian said he was fetching her at lunchtime . ’ |