Example sentences of "he [verb] her [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 2 | She closed her eyes and arched blindly against him , let him guide her into another kind of darkness , where that unknown vortex of emotion , that powerful pull of attraction between them swirled and hypnotised , and this time the stars behind her eyelids were brilliant but softly incandescent , fireworks of intense delight , bursting in her head … |
| 3 | Parliament was thus taking the marital exemption into realms uncontemplated even by Hale , who believed that it was one thing for a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent , quite another for him to force her into sexual intercourse with others . |
| 4 | She was standing straight , looking in his direction but seemingly through him , and the strange look on her face brought him around fully , and he was about to speak , not with the intention of giving her the true version of why he wanted to volunteer , for it was n't in him to hurt her to that extent , but she turned from him and , quietly opening the door , went out . |
| 5 | He led her into another room , and there listened , with a good deal of amazement , to Rose 's account of her extraordinary conversation with Nancy . |
| 6 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 7 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 8 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |
| 9 | He regarded her with undisguised affection . |
| 10 | He entered her without further ado . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's the heavens rejoicing , ’ he told her with firm surety . |
| 12 | Awfully cold , ’ he told her with malicious pleasure . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's what one does to necks , ’ he told her with mock menace . |
| 14 | ‘ You are looking at a genuinely reformed character , ’ he assured her with soft intensity , his gaze darkening as his eyes roved hungrily over her flushed cheeks , then down to the open neck of her checked blouse where her breasts were crushed against his chest . |
| 15 | And then his mouth fell to hers and he consumed her with hungry possession . |
| 16 | It seemed odd that he loathed her with such intensity and yet had made a pass at her . |
| 17 | He had been so gentle , controlling his own need while he readied her with exquisite subtlety and patience . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're doing no such thing , ’ he informed her with dangerous calm . |
| 19 | ‘ My mother did no such thing ! ’ he informed her with aggressive force . |
| 20 | He heard her laughing-with real amusement as he went up the stairs once more . |
| 21 | He kissed her with suppressed violence , then let her go so abruptly that she almost lost balance . |
| 22 | Former model Carol Lawson , 42 , from Park Gate , Hants , refused to hang up on her relationship with neighbour Michael Hughes after he dumped her for another woman . |
| 23 | He pulls her to one side . |
| 24 | She was n't coming to London with him and nor would he recommend her as Administrative Officer at Larksoken . |
| 25 | He was almost sure that it was all a revelation to her and he watched her in sad silence as she covered her face and shook with sobs . |
| 26 | But that did n't mean she had to like the way he treated her like some sort of assistant . |
| 27 | O'Shea , of Shepherd 's Bush , west London , who had been her boyfriend for several months , admitted to police he strangled her with electrical flex . |
| 28 | Then Emmie helped him out of the skip and along the railway ; he clutched her with one hand and held Murgatroyd with the other . |
| 29 | He questioned her in more detail for several more minutes , asking about sleep , moods , energy levels and half a dozen other tiny things that revealed his deep concern for his sister . |
| 30 | Like all Scots he seemed to her intelligent and well-bred , but uniquely devoted after he saved her from two carriage accidents and two assailants . |