Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] her " in BNC.

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1 Mind you I 'd get myself embarrassed in front of sixty million viewers if I was on her money
2 ‘ Not if some big flatfoot is just going to barge in on her and say I 'm shouting it all over town I was with her last night . ’
3 While I had been around , it had been easy to smooth things over , but now I was at her mercy .
4 Naturally Richard had asked her where I was and when , realizing what she had done , she said I was at her flat , he had telephoned Jack and discovered this was untrue .
5 In fact , that 's why I was at her house the night before .
6 ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’
7 ‘ I look at the mothers to whom I am going to have say it and I say ‘ bloody hell , if I was in her shoes how would I feel , what would I do ? ’
8 So you know , I say things like oh I 'm going down to see Zoey now before dinner and like she 'll follow me down or something and I 'll say oh are you going into the saloon or like to try and get her to not come with me , then I feel so guilty I think well poor Marina , you know , she 's here in a foreign country , she has n't got any friends and she 's all by herself and I would n't like it if I was in her position
9 I was among her escort to Bristol when Stephen made the idiotic mistake of allowing the Countess to join her half-brother . ’
10 Constance promised that she would , but she was so afraid of the outcome that she knew she could n't , not until she and Ludovico had been married and she was beyond her mother 's power .
11 Mary Rose was a kind and simple woman , in awe of her husband , as she had been of her father , as she was of her parish priest .
12 He was perpetually in the grip of some obscure , niggling , unexplained bitterness , which led him to repudiate most of the overtures which Clara would from time to time make towards him ; she made these attempts because she was less frightened of him than she was of her mother , and she did on one or two occasions — the purchase of a bicycle , permission to go to the cinema — manage to enlist his sympathies .
13 She would surely awake from the nightmare world where she was without her mother ?
14 In a flash she was off her bed and on her way to have it out with the one man responsible .
15 She was outside her father 's social club at Pentre , South Glamorgan , where Mr Browning worked as a bouncer .
16 At the root of the mixture of emotions that Kylie felt that day was the very real feat that despite the fame and fabulous wealth that might lie ahead of her , her future might not allow her to ever again be part of as precious and close a group of friends as she was during her Neighbours days .
17 That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver .
18 Laden as she was with her day 's purchases , Jude chose to walk back to Marlin 's apartment at Park Avenue and 80th .
19 And once , a little while before , she was with her brother in the forest hunting game for supper , when he saw the leaves flicker .
20 Eileen came on leave on 28 August and it was fortunate that she was with her mother .
21 Obsessed as she was with her unknown rival , Charlotte never quite dared to seek her out .
22 Well , Felipe could n't go to that woman anyhow because she was with her husband no matter what signals she had been giving Felipe .
23 He was the sort of man who was always punctual and here she was with her hair all over the place and a shiny nose .
24 Mm , I know it , she was with her husband because erm whoever it was
25 She was spending more and more time out — presumably she was at her other place .
26 She was at her home-town , but what about Uncle George and Gillian ?
27 It was an exhilarating meeting with her , because she was at her best and talking as she writes , and trying not to smile when she made us laugh .
28 At Prince Andrew 's 21st birthday party which was held at Windsor Castle she was at her ease among friends .
29 From the time she rose in the morning until she mounted the stairs to go to bed , she was at her mother 's beck and call .
30 All season she had been getting more and more angry with herself when she played badly and there were times , when she was at her most frustrated , that she would savagely scratch the skin from her forehead .
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