Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is seeing her off the premises at this minute . ’ |
| 2 | Mrs Lydan 's husband Bill died last year but she 'd kept dozens of stones , and pieces of jewellery which he 's given her over the years . |
| 3 | and for a treat he 's taking her to the , er nostalgic weekend at |
| 4 | he 's left her in the car . |
| 5 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 6 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 7 | He was swinging her into the sailboat , then , with a broad grin , leaping in beside her . |
| 8 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 9 | And then he was dragging her by the hands , racing across the lawn , nearly pulling her arm from its socket , crashing through the kitchen door , crying aloud so that it sounded like a whoop of triumph . |
| 10 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 11 | It was then she realised that he was lambasting her with the tennis racquet . |
| 12 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |
| 13 | He was leading her to the edge of the dance-floor . |
| 14 | On long strides he was leading her towards the door , oblivious to her inner anguish . |
| 15 | Then he was leading her across the terrace and through the open doors of the villa , across the drawing-room and out into the hall . |
| 16 | When she came to , she saw that he was carrying her across the field , past the cottage and up the track towards his Jaguar . |
| 17 | With horror she realized he was carrying her to the top of the stairs . |