Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw him scowl darkly as he scanned the page , and wondered for a few moments if perhaps , although he could speak her tongue almost as if he 'd been born in her country , he did not read English so well . |
| 2 | But by now the police had found out about Lady Margaret Illingworth , a rich aunt who 'd been stripped of her fortune after she 'd gone senile . |
| 3 | Then a week later my wife told me that she 'd been abused by her brother . |
| 4 | It was surprising , now he came to think of it , that this had n't scared him off , but he 'd been lulled by her flippancy . |
| 5 | Most Danes , she 'd been assured by her guide book , spoke excellent English . |
| 6 | Karen had dipped badly in her A-levels and had done two years in a commerce school before she 'd been accepted for her degree course . |
| 7 | She 'd been strangled by her father , 33-year-old Richard Yates from Eldene . |
| 8 | For most of the week she 'd been seated at her desk , wading through piles of old G.W. design books , taking notes , making sketches , dashing off diagrams , in an effort to come up with some common thread in the mish-mash of styles that dragged dully across the pages . |
| 9 | She 'd been devastated by her mother 's sudden illness and totally unexpected death . |
| 10 | And , an added bonus , in the house of the woman who 'd been seduced by her grandfather ! |
| 11 | Mrs MacIllarry said she 'd been told by her mother that Jobson had once phoned saying he would kill her and then himself . |
| 12 | She thought of the tragic woman who 'd been deserted by her father and had settled for second best . |
| 13 | Another reason for police believing there to be ‘ something very wrong ’ about the disappearance , is the way in which after Dinah went missing , money began being withdrawn from her building society account — — something which has convinced police that ‘ something serious has happened to her . ’ |
| 14 | She enjoyed being swept off her feet and wooed with such single-minded purpose , her every whim given in to , being inundated with presents . |
| 15 | She had the sense to realize there could not be two Queen Bees within one organization , even in such a large country , and anyway it meant being separated from her lover Mangon . |
| 16 | Among them , she included the daughter of a law professor in Bologna , a certain Novella , who had been taught by her father , ‘ not quite sixty years ago ’ , because he disagreed with his contemporaries prejudice against women 's education . |
| 17 | She had been presented to him , rather in the way she had been presented to her mother , ten years ago , by a Jamaican midwife , in Queen Mary 's Hospital , Roehampton . |
| 18 | It was difficult to see her backside in the mirror , but she could make out the pink weals which had been raised on her tender white bum-cheeks by the little squirt . |
| 19 | ONCE WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT five she had been separated from her mother in a department store . |
| 20 | When she objected that she should n't be sent back empty handed , she was shown what had been written on her requisition . |
| 21 | Chapman had been convicted in her absence at an earlier hearing of abandoning the rat and causing unnecessary suffering to a domestic pet between October 23 and 29 at her former home in Streatham . |
| 22 | Margaret 's stature in the Party had been enhanced by her performances at the dispatch box as Robert Carr 's deputy opposing Labour 's Finance Bill . |
| 23 | The kids had been sent to her mother 's house , and now it seemed that they had a new surrogate father . |
| 24 | Her family were farmers , but she had been sent by her employer to learn the finer points of cuisine and household management from the master chef and the housekeeper at the Savoy . |
| 25 | Annie Jameson had been sent by her parents to study singing in Italy , where she married . |
| 26 | It had been sent by her aunt 's neighbour who reported that Bertha had had an accident . |
| 27 | as if her thoughts had been transmitted to her sister , Dorothy said , ‘ I know my son would have grown up to be a fine , good-looking man . |
| 28 | Clare 's divorce petition would not be heard until July ; she had been warned by her solicitor not to be seen alone with a man right now , or it might affect her petition and the custody of her son . |
| 29 | Police said her condition was ‘ very serious ’ and her relatives had been called to her bedside . |
| 30 | ALCOHOLIC Linda McMullen had been savagely beaten but the main cause of her death was the soil , debris and vegetation that had been packed into her mouth and choked her , a jury at Mold Crown Court was told yesterday . |