Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly she saw him in a new guise .
2 So she popped him into a plastic box , wrapped it in brown paper and posted it .
3 Only his song could do the trick , and float the witch into a dreamless sleep , and so she tied him to a perch by a silken ribbon and put bells on his bird 's feet .
4 So she hit him on the face to make him prick his ears !
5 Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground .
6 Gently she shook him by the shoulder , and his eyes opened .
7 Deliberately she looked him in the eye as she said it .
8 Numbly she followed him from the dance floor , barely even noticing when some of the dancers called out to her in passing .
9 Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it .
10 Five minutes later she joined him in the Biography alcove .
11 Three years later she accompanied him on a tour of India .
12 She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him .
13 He stood no taller than his daughter , probably she exceeded him by an inch or two , but he had the shoulders of a bull , and a great head of brindled brown hair laced with grey , like his short , square beard .
14 Then she woke him with a cup of tea .
15 Then she took him into a shoe shop — and Pip 's father sold her some new shoes for Anthony .
16 His T-shirt followed , and his briefs , then she pushed him towards the bed and stripped off her jeans and sweatshirt .
17 Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him .
18 Leaning across she kissed him on the cheek .
19 Jimmy last met the Queen in 1979 when she presented him with the OBE.
20 ‘ Do n't ! ’ groaned Tim when she teased him with the label .
21 ‘ Is all well ? ’ he asked when she joined him at a small table in a corner of the crowded bar .
22 Because she turned unexpectedly she surprised him in an unguarded moment of frank sexual appraisal , but his dark , unsmiling gaze continued to hold hers steadily until she looked away again .
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