Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she wants to join him in the ring at Moscow State Circus . |
| 2 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 3 | She 'd followed him into the Rockingham public house by the Elephant and Castle . |
| 4 | Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water . |
| 5 | She 'd invited him round the previous evening and things had n't gone at all as he 'd hoped . |
| 6 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 7 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 8 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 9 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 10 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 11 | It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence . |
| 12 | That she 'd introduced him to the Fletchers to keep him there … well , she deserved it . |
| 13 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 14 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 15 | She started towing him towards the back room . |
| 16 | It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror . |
| 17 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 18 | She wondered if she dared ask him about the coccolith and God . |
| 19 | Only last week she had told Henry ( who had lived in Maple Drive for twelve years ) that she wished to welcome him to the neighbourhood . |
| 20 | Ever since she had saved him in the snowstorm , George had been uncomfortably aware of her presence . |
| 21 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 22 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 23 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 24 | Four weeks later she had seen him in the cinema queue with another girl , and had perceived that her day was over ; in between , she had known disorientation and obsession , diagnosed her trouble , and felt exhilarated . |
| 25 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 26 | Had he been bearing a grudge against her since the previous Friday when she had pushed him against the door of Woolworth 's ? |
| 27 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
| 28 | She had asked him about the planet . |
| 29 | He would look up from his newspaper after supper to find her eyes fixed on him , in a way which brought back to him the passion with which she had kissed him upon the moor . |
| 30 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |