Example sentences of "she [verb] he [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school . |
2 | Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room . |
3 | She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown . |
4 | She seated him before the blaze of the bright fire ; she brought him , unasked , a glass of the Armagnac he preferred . |
5 | She led him down the side passage and pointed to a shelf . |
6 | Taking his hand , she led him to the bed and lay down . |
7 | Back at the hotel , instead of heading for the bedroom , she led him to the bar , where they took a couple of glasses of malt and fell to chatting with some locals who 'd ‘ just dropped by to have a nightcap ’ despite the fact it was gone midnight and they all had work to go to in the morning . |
8 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
9 | She led him to the bedroom , and spreadeagled him on the bed before tying his wrists to the iron headrest . |
10 | She led him into the kitchen where the fire burnt cheerfully in the grate . |
11 | She led him into the sitting room . |
12 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |
13 | For a moment animosity was swept away by mutual interest and , as she led him towards the recovery cage , she felt a pang of regret that their relationship could not be friendly . |
14 | Instead of saying so , she pecked him on the cheek . |
15 | The next time he went to church she waylaid him after the evening service , and tried to persuade him to enter the hall , where — as he had guessed — a cup of tea was about to be made . |
16 | Dragging at the dog , she got him off the bed , and looked up at the visitor , whom she did not know . |
17 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
18 | She asked him about the beer kegs and he pointed to a flight of wooden stairs at the end of the hall . |
19 | When she passed him on the stairs his expression told her he scarcely knew she was there . |
20 | He was clad in a short towelling robe , and his hair was damp , and he was clearly on his way back from taking a shower when , on her way to carry out her own ablutions , she passed him in the sitting-room . |
21 | She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel . |
22 | Satisfied , she helped him into the bath and began soaping him all over ; as usual , he bawled loudly when it came to washing his hair . |
23 | Then , as he simply smiled , she regarded him over the top of it . |
24 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
25 | She caught him by the hand . |
26 | She caught him in the hall as he put on his hat . |
27 | ‘ Mr Marsh , I wonder if I might accept your offer of help , ’ she said when she found him in the vestry . |
28 | She found him in the kitchen , a big L-shaped room , like the house , dominated by an Aga cooker at one end , and a round table set in the shorter alcove . |
29 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
30 | Finally , with contemptuous ease , she lured him under the t'gallant and hacked at a shroud which parted , dumping a heavy chunk of rigging on the miscast Orin . |