Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew he cared , he showed it , but he would n't say the things she wanted to hear — that he cared for her to the exclusion of all others , and wanted her in his life to the exclusion of all others . |
| 2 | It was he who after a particularly violent disagreement , suggested that Joan should be invited to pay them another visit — though he referred to her as the lady Anne , as had been agreed . |
| 3 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 4 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 5 | He knelt beside her on the hearthrug . |
| 6 | Perhaps , thought Robert , as he trudged after her towards the iron gates , this was a signal for their lovemaking to become more decorous . |
| 7 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 8 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 9 | He seemed to her like the kind of man who loved to provoke reaction . |
| 10 | When Adam had a document for Miranda to sign that he thought she might argue about , he always included it in a sheaf of other papers he handed to her at the end of the day , when she was exhausted . |
| 11 | After an early morning breakfast with Paula , he walked with her to the garage where the BMW was parked . |
| 12 | He walked with her to the door of the hall and watched her stepping it out across the square , her shoulders back , her head defiantly erect . |
| 13 | When he returned with her to the Judge 's House two hours later , he found Mrs Wood waiting outside it . |
| 14 | His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered . |
| 15 | He stepped past her into the room , then turned to face her , his face set in uncompromising lines . |
| 16 | As she moved to push him away , he stepped with her into the lift , pressed the button for her floor , and , as the lift doors closed , he pulled her closer and aimed a kiss at her mouth . |
| 17 | How the hell was he going to get the information he required from her with the conductor prattling about ? |
| 18 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |
| 19 | He talked to her about the play , the characters . |
| 20 | Nevertheless when the Sun story appeared he talked to her on the phone for an hour , her in tears . |
| 21 | He thought of her on the night train to Newcastle ( where he knew of a kindly , broadminded landlady who would see her through her trouble– , and shuddered sympathetically . |
| 22 | He thought of her as the child , though she was married and a mother . |
| 23 | She roused increasing desire in him ; he thought of her in the night , when his abstruse reflections on the day 's work were done . |
| 24 | Julia tried to obey , as she tried to do everything he demanded of her over the next few days and as she tried to keep her misery and pain and fear from all of them . |
| 25 | She shrieked when he went near her with the scissors , and had to be held down by the nurse so that he could take off about twelve inches of her golden curls . |
| 26 | He strode past her into the hall . |
| 27 | He strode past her into the hall and flicked a glance around . |
| 28 | He looked past her beyond the stairs into a kitchen . |
| 29 | He looked at her across the pillows . |
| 30 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |