Example sentences of "him [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young woman remembers how her mother would leave home at 5am day after day , and wait in the Marmoura forest near where the King used to play golf in an effort to plead with him for her husband 's life . |
| 2 | Ellen was sure now that she had him for her own and most likely thought it a fair return for her investment of time and trouble . |
| 3 | In his book Rest Days Hutton Webster has drawn attention to the passage in 2 Kings 4 : 23 , describing how , when the Shunammite woman wanted to go to the prophet Elijah to beg him for her son 's life to be restored , her husband objected , saying ‘ Wherefore wilt thou go to him today ? |
| 4 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 5 | At least , she could understand him for her uncle , later to be the 6th Duke , was deaf as well . |
| 6 | ‘ No names , no pack drill , but I know somebody who works for her and she was saying that Diana will be jolly pleased to have a lump sum to spend instead of having to go to him for her money . |
| 7 | She raised her head to look at him between her bare knees . |
| 8 | Forcing him to kneel , she guided him between her open thighs , before lying back to spread her legs . |
| 9 | She was dizzy , intoxicated , unable to think straight as he pushed her back against the pillows , his body covering hers , her senses swimming with the urgent pressure of him between her naked thighs . |
| 10 | The girl watched him through her pretty , almond eyes . |
| 11 | When she looked at him through her veil her fears vanished and she thought that she was the luckiest girl in the world . |
| 12 | She looked up at him through her eyebrows and smiled . |
| 13 | ‘ Does the moon shine in the night sky ? ’ she mocked shakily , laughing at him through her tears . |
| 14 | She linked her arm in Louis 's , and looked up at him through her eyelashes . |
| 15 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 16 | That has its charm , ’ said his mother , looking at him through her silver glasses . |
| 17 | When Isabel peeped at him through her fingers , Guy laughed again . |
| 18 | She looked at him through her lashes , almost sullenly . |
| 19 | She watched him through her fingers as he went down the garden and bent over the hole . |
| 20 | ‘ Lindsey , ’ he groaned softly as she looked at him through her lashes , ‘ do you have any idea what you 're doing to me ? ’ |
| 21 | She gazed at him through her thick lashes . |
| 22 | Rachel got up from the sun-lounger , her feet burning on the hot stone floor of the terrace , and stared at him through her dark glasses as he strode into the living-room . |
| 23 | ‘ The groovesome dudes , ’ she said thickly , staring at him through her lashes , then drew an unsteady breath and turned her back on him . |
| 24 | Rachel looked at him through her lashes . |
| 25 | Rachel watched him through her lashes . |
| 26 | Even though she almost wholly accepted who Tammuz was , if only as an abstract , she still found it very difficult to look upon him as her father in flesh and blood . |
| 27 | Within a day a portrait of the deceased as he might have looked in life had been produced , and by Wednesday a woman living on a council estate south of the river had identified him as her next-door neighbour , Mr Chant . |
| 28 | It was n't so much Cora-Beth 's looks which appealed to him as her character . |
| 29 | Now that the prior was assured of retaining his saint , together with all the lustre accruing to him as her discoverer and translator , he wanted everything tidied up and ended , and these troublesome visitors from Ramsey off his premises , before they contrived some further mischief . |
| 30 | She travels widely , but is always glad to return to him as her ‘ anchor ’ . |