Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had written to him while he was in prison but had received no reply , but then she had excused him in her own mind , telling herself he would be free soon , then he would come home to her and make her his bride . |
| 2 | Presumably he thought she ought to have let him into her room to make love to her ! |
| 3 | He was voicing a desire which he feared might only bring him Meh'Lindi 's contempt — so soon after she had honoured and anointed him with her body . |
| 4 | She must have caught him with her fist , though she had n't felt it . |
| 5 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |
| 6 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 7 | ‘ Because she 's seen him with her own eyes ! |
| 8 | ‘ If she 's seen him with her own eyes she knows which restaurant it is . ’ |
| 9 | She had startled him with her headlong flight . |
| 10 | And to have met him on her own terms , or by accident , would have been one thing , and a delight , but to look as though she were some silly teenager following an idol … well , that was entirely another . |
| 11 | But more importantly she had buried him in her heart . |
| 12 | Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic . |
| 13 | She had told him about her broken engagement and how deeply hurt and wary she had felt after it . |
| 14 | Perhaps , thought Harry , Heather had not told him of her visit to Oxford — or what she had learned there . |
| 15 | From her own questioning she had made sure that Mr Miller bought only the best puppies from reliable breeders and , in turn , she had told him of her own circumstances . |
| 16 | She had felt worthless , doubly deserted , and had finally wiped him from her mind , only a faint bitterness left , a hollow , incomplete feeling she would always carry . |
| 17 | One incident in particular had convinced him of her genuineness . |
| 18 | His generosity had got her out of gaol , and she had misled him about her sailing ability . |
| 19 | John is happy because Mary has invited him to her party . |
| 20 | Buffy the pug was dead long ago ; between them the family had replaced him in her affections . |
| 21 | Edith was already up , and had awoken him with her cries of woe when she drew back the heavy plush curtains to discover grey skies and drizzle . |
| 22 | She had often tired him with her chatter , with her bursts of personal revelations , ‘ Today I feel this — yesterday I felt that , ’ but suddenly he wished she would talk to him . |
| 23 | She ached with sympathy for him , and if this had been Christmas , or any time in those months when she had felt they were friends , she would have pulled him into her arms and soothed him with soft hands and whispered words . |
| 24 | Only Anthea 's insistence had brought him to her room , where matters had taken their own turn . |
| 25 | She ought to have known that only matters of business would have brought him to her door . |
| 26 | He was fluent , learned , a man of books , and yet , she had heard him with her father on small points , as sharp as a tinker … too many false trails , too many different scents … as if he , too , were puzzling over his path … |
| 27 | He had started to move forward but Maggie had fixed him with her clear grey eyes and he knew what she knew herself — break into this now and Ana would refuse to stay here . |
| 28 | Within a day a portrait of the deceased as he might have looked in life had been produced , and by Wednesday a woman living on a council estate south of the river had identified him as her next-door neighbour , Mr Chant . |
| 29 | ‘ Although her captivity chafed her and her disappearance , as the lord King has found cause to remind me , has deprived him of her considerable ransom . |
| 30 | His instinct for self preservation had warned him of her move long before she had made it . |