Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [prep] her [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her arms and legs ached , and because of her pending interrogation she was ever conscious of being stripped of her knickers . |
| 2 | In spite of her grief at being parted from her cousins , she could not help but feel excited . |
| 3 | This , at the moment , is being undertaken by her parents . |
| 4 | They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui , and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere ; Rachel felt she was being shaken till her teeth rattled as the car sped up through the cross-harbour tunnel into Causeway Bay , past the bobbing sampans and the escort clubs , speeding towards Central District along the harbour road , traffic everywhere , horns blasting in her ears … |
| 5 | She felt her knickers being jerked down to her knees , and his knob being pressed between her legs in one frenzied movement . |
| 6 | She was too lost in misery , and when she found herself being lifted to her feet embarrassment added itself to the misery . |
| 7 | Earlier this week in Surrey , a businessman 's wife was beaten and robbed of seventy five thousand pound 's worth of jewellery after being attacked in her sports car on the M Twenty Five . |
| 8 | She was distressed and anxious at being separated from her friends , and rapidly developed colic . |
| 9 | However , she is brought in on her own , and the mare is distraught at being separated from her friends . |
| 10 | NO ONE knows the pain Princess Diana will feel being separated from her children at Christmas better than Hester Finn . |
| 11 | Not only that , but she noticed her arms being drawn into her sides . |
| 12 | Whatever was being alleged against her neighbours must have come from statements made by her children in care . |
| 13 | Miss Dell 's books were still being reprinted for her admirers in the 1950s . |
| 14 | Despite herself , Lucy heard a question being dragged from her lips . |
| 15 | I mean … people who only succeed through their family connections depress me , ’ she went on frantically , her head spinning at the glittering lures being dangled before her eyes . |
| 16 | Rings were being slipped on her fingers now . |
| 17 | She enjoyed being swept off her feet and wooed with such single-minded purpose , her every whim given in to , being inundated with presents . |
| 18 | The result was that , instead of being swept off her feet as maybe he intended , she found him funny . |
| 19 | ‘ They are being spread by her competitors . ’ |
| 20 | Joshua found a seat and watched Hyacinth Scragg being put through her paces . |
| 21 | Farrah spent the night at a hotel less than two miles from the bungalow after being reunited with her parents , Bernadette and Shane . |
| 22 | Radclyffe Hall described herself as a ‘ congenital invert ’ , called herself ‘ John ’ , the name Radclyffe Hall being reserved for her publications , and was strikingly masculine in appearance . |
| 23 | Suddenly she was aware of her cardigan being draped around her shoulders and slowly she looked up to see Nathan standing beside her . |
| 24 | With Mrs. Thatcher you never got the feeling that she was being advised against her wishes , with John Major I 'm not so sure that 's true . |
| 25 | Virginia , you see , was quite a brave Brownie , despite being scared by her schoolfriends ' stories of the witch of Wardle Wood . |