Example sentences of "man she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Days later , an elderly widow watched while a man she identified as 25-year-old Benjamin Laing , on trial for the double killing , dug a deep grave in pouring rain for the remains of Mr Manwaring , 62 , and 24-year-old Alison . |
| 2 | The man she shared her bed with , the man she cooked for , the man she loved for decades , has turned into someone completely unrecognisable . |
| 3 | She evidently saw no difficulty in reconciling that with the fact that the man she hoped to marry was training to become a doctor . |
| 4 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 5 | But she also sensed how deep Hugo 's hurt ran and since his first wife 's death was also connected with the man she told herself it would be tasteless to dwell on it . |
| 6 | The man she told was a printer at the Post and after sharing the news with his colleagues he decided to let the police in on it too . |
| 7 | And she had never known a man she felt was worthy of the greatest gift she had to offer : herself , body and soul . |
| 8 | And Dr Rafaelo was the kind of man she felt she could talk to openly . |
| 9 | Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are . |
| 10 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |
| 11 | Behind her through the open door , Katherine saw a man she thought she recognized as the porter . |
| 12 | Some part of her still wanted to defend Luke Hunter , even though she was beginning to realise that he was far from being the man she thought she knew — the man she had let herself love . |
| 13 | She felt sorry she had disturbed the usual calmness of a man she respected , but considered she could not apologize to him without either offending or encouraging him . |
| 14 | The assessors based their decision almost entirely on the testimony of Lisbet Palme , who without hesitation pointed out Mr Pettersson as the man she saw standing near her and her dying husband . |
| 15 | ‘ My aunt had … this other general opinion … that every man she saw was a pick-pocket . ’ |
| 16 | The man she saw on the other side was in his late thirties , his hair receding slightly , but what hair he did have was thick and lustrous and reached the collar of his shirt . |
| 17 | Now when she saw him drinking , wild-eyed and aggressive , in her inner eye she kept the vision of the distinguished and striking man she knew him to be . |
| 18 | This was not the simple old man she knew well , sometimes annoyingly obstinate , but usually easy to coax or control with a smile . |
| 19 | Two years after her conversion to strictness of life , she was sexually attracted to a man she knew well , although she seems to have had just before this a grandiose sense of her own imperviousness to sin . |
| 20 | He was the most thorough man she knew . |
| 21 | Her target — the man she knew by sight — sat at the bar . |
| 22 | She met another man she knew and was dancing with him when Antonio discovered her , whereupon he was heard by onlookers to curse the moon for trusting in his fiancée 's purity . |
| 23 | She ran wildly out into the street and begged a man she knew to come back with her . |
| 24 | Perhaps the lack of self-confidence led the woman to marry a man she knew to be unsupportive in case she was not asked by anyone else . |
| 25 | Her first impression of the man she knew with a sinking feeling could only be Niall Grant was of strong , sun-tanned features which held her gaze as the blue eyes looked coolly into hers , and for the first time in her life her height , which at five feet eight inches had given her an advantage over a lot of men , suddenly seemed diminished . |
| 26 | Especially when her innamorato was a man she knew virtually nothing about . |
| 27 | Boyfriend Barry Pitt , himself an ex-policeman and the man she plans to marry , was at her bedside when she woke after an emergency six-hour operation . |
| 28 | The guard posted at the entrance to their quarters is a man she does not know well ; Ariel registers this discrepancy , wonders about it , thinks of Jack Elsey with a moment of affection . |
| 29 | Yet the Tutor 's capitulation to Natalia reveals her power over every man she meets as well as his failure to withstand her wiles . |
| 30 | She was alone with the man she believed had killed once and tried to kill a second time . |