Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
| 2 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 3 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |
| 4 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 5 | Was that how she would have felt if she 'd been in her position ? |
| 6 | Naylor Massingham had not been the easiest of people to deal with when he 'd been in her home ; how would she fare now that she was , so to speak , on his territory ? |
| 7 | So by the end of the day , we 'd met Sam , we knew her , we 'd been in her house , we 'd looked around her house . |
| 8 | She enjoyed being with her friends ; their conversation was lively and interesting , they belonged to the real world — the world she had left behind . |
| 9 | the first piece of Bhimji 's work I saw was at her degree show at Goldsmiths ' College in 1987 . |
| 10 | This was n't a reflection of his feelings about me , I knew that , and when pressed he would only say that the most resounding impression she gave was of her innate class . |
| 11 | She had n't really believed it herself , not all of it anyway ; so when her mother started telling her that what Davy Treffry had said was more or less true , she wanted to put her hands over her ears and not listen ; she did n't want to know about the argument there had been between her father and her Uncle Harry ; she did n't want to hear about how they picked their wives by some silly fishing competition . |
| 12 | Her mousy hair had been bleached by the sun to a more nearly-blonde than it had been since her childhood , and her skin was very brown . |
| 13 | In this case Miss T. had been during her childhood subjected to the religious beliefs of her mother and in her weakened medical condition , in pain , and under the influence of the drugs administered to assist her , the pressure from her mother was likely to have a considerably enhanced effect . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Helen , who had been so calm during the night , was now cold and shaking with delayed shock , and Anne told her how glad she had been of her company . |
| 16 | She had been to her room and put on one of the swimsuits she had bought . |
| 17 | er , she said that they 'd been to the said this man had been to her house . |
| 18 | Carrie knew how hard it had been for her father , who had spent almost thirty-seven years as a horsekeeper for Galloway , to look for other employment . |
| 19 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
| 20 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 21 | Going to the local shops with her aunt one afternoon , she broached the subject that had been on her mind for days . |
| 22 | One minute she had been on her hands and knees scrubbing and the next she was being wined and dined by the owner of the largest store in town . |
| 23 | Through the brushed cotton of her sweater she could feel the pressure of his fingers , his touch scorching her as surely as if it had been on her bare skin . |
| 24 | It seemed that she had been on her own forever . |
| 25 | Her heart had been on her sleeve when Mandy had opened that door , and she felt utterly and abjectly humiliated . |
| 26 | Affreca , daughter of the King of the Isle of Man , had been on her way to these shores to marry Sir John de Courcy but was caught up in a violent storm . |
| 27 | Gemma , 11 , found fending for herself in her west London home while her mother , 31 , was on holiday in Spain , was taken in by Hammersmith Council on February 1 after complaints that she had been on her own for two days . |
| 28 | He felt a pang of jealousy , which was intensified when he remembered the smart army officers who had been at her husband 's memorial service . |
| 29 | She had been at her worst between Spanish Fork and Dead Rat , when Elder Seth and the voices of the dead were arguing inside her head . |
| 30 | First she 'd learned that her grandmother , whom she adored , was dangerously ill , and had been at her bedside ever since . |