Example sentences of "she [verb] him [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she got out of bed , she found him sitting on the top stair , listening to Dad and Mother downstairs in the kitchen , and crying . |
| 2 | He got up , flung the strange , savage robe around his shoulders again and went into the other room where she heard him shouting through the door " Is that little matter sorted out yet , at the Dog and Gun ? " |
| 3 | When , after an hour , she heard him coming up the stairs she pulled the sheets tightly around her , and then relaxed . |
| 4 | He went out without another word , and she heard him going down the stairs . |
| 5 | She heard him running down the stairs , problems at his heels . |
| 6 | From the back window she saw him swaggering along the dock , a hand on his hip , throwing keys in the air with insouciant authority . |
| 7 | But Viola had reassumed all her wonted , iron-clad voluptuousness , and only her reddened eyes — had they , Greg wondered , been rubbed since she saw him coming up the path ? — suggested that she might have gone through a frightening or saddening time . |
| 8 | On the morning she saw him standing in the body of the church , dark as a gypsy in his morning suit . |
| 9 | ‘ No breakfast ? ’ she called when she saw him striding up the stairs two at a time . |
| 10 | She left him standing under the light and walked into the warm cigar-scented room beyond , knowing that the last Russian doll , like all the others , would still be herself . |
| 11 | When the crunch came , she left him standing on the dance floor . |