Example sentences of "she [vb past] he the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley . |
| 2 | ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass . |
| 3 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 4 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 5 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 6 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 7 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 8 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 9 | She handed him the woebegone bouquet , the bird 's head dangling , its coxcomb a broken-stemmed blossom ; he took it , bowed his head , and pinched the child 's cheek as he showed his teeth gritted in greedy affection , the expression that says to children , ‘ Aahah ! |
| 10 | Alighting hesitantly , she cast anxious eyes around her , wondering just where her hotel was , as she paid him the exact amount on the meter , feeling strangely guilty as she refrained from adding a tip in accordance with the multi-lingual notice in the cab . |
| 11 | She showed him the tiny pile on the bed , and he nodded again . |
| 12 | ‘ She called him the former proprietor . |
| 13 | She offered him the half-smoked burnie but he batted it angrily from her fingers before heading back towards the concourse . |
| 14 | She sent him the sudden grin again and Caspar said , ‘ Oh dear me , what optimism , ’ but he said it quietly . |
| 15 | When she gave him the second half of S. Kettering 's rent , he put it in his pocket without counting it . |