Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 2 | Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue . |
| 3 | Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism . |
| 4 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 5 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 6 | It was as if she had shot him with a tranquillising dart . |
| 7 | She had followed him in a second taxi to London Airport , taking her case with her . |
| 8 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 9 | He taught at the College of Further Education a few miles from Spaxton ; she had met him through a rambling club . |
| 10 | She had sent him in an ambulance to Crosshouse Hospital . |
| 11 | She had dragged him into a room that turned out to be empty . |
| 12 | She had lost him for a while , at the party , but she 'd already been too drunk to worry . |
| 13 | She had wanted it preserved and she had chosen him as a means to this end . |
| 14 | When she had seen him first , she had marked him as a " bully " , one of those who kept the brothel girls in line . |
| 15 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 16 | He stared at her almost angrily , as if she had trapped him into a confidence he would have preferred not to have made . |