Example sentences of "and she [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Her head came up and she looked him in the eye .
2 Melanie tried to reconstruct his return , Aunt Margaret making tea , he asking after the newcomers and she telling him in her own way .
3 And she told him about it .
4 Richard phoned and she told him about it , omitting the part about her offer of a donation .
5 ‘ I ca n't take much more of this , ’ he confided to Lily , and she told him to shush .
6 She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else .
7 And she had him in turmoil !
8 He was Pickles 's slave and she treated him like one .
9 He stood up smartly and she followed him with gratitude as he took from his pocket a large bunch of keys , from each of which dangled a carefully written label .
10 He stood up abruptly and she followed him with her eyes , aching at the sight of his powerful body .
11 And she left him with a quick glance from her eyes , dark as an otter 's pelt , and a smile that was like a gift .
12 Her marriage to John Fenwick ( possibly on 8 May 1781 at St Dunstan , Stepney ) , a radical author and translator , proved disastrous and she left him in 1800 ‘ determined … to consider myself and children totally separated from his bad or good fortunes ’ .
13 However , he was the butt of HERA 's wrath and she drove him to madness .
14 His wife 's name was Sarah ; she was five years his junior , and she predeceased him by ten months .
15 Her eyes darted back to his and she studied him before parting her lips to give him his answer .
16 It was Jack and she brought him into the kitchen .
17 In the audience was Princess Margherita of Savoy ( later Queen of Italy ) , and she appointed him as her singing teacher .
18 Her child had a nightmare and she took him into her bed to comfort him .
19 ‘ So it was Alain all the time , and she took him for me , ’ mused Dieter .
20 When they reached the hotel , he walked with her to her room , and she thanked him in a rather stilted voice for a very pleasant evening .
21 You see , he 's got thousands of titles and things , and she likes him into the bargain ; also she wants me to be presented at court next year — as his wife .
22 Such scenes of domestic bliss would only turn to torments and she forced him to be a spectre at the back of her mind .
23 He was offering her an out and she respected him for that .
24 But she has grown up strangely , and she treats him with a cold formality , calling him ‘ Sir ’ but correcting him almost every time he speaks .
25 Her head turned slightly towards him and she fixed him with that blind , unthinking stare .
26 The nurse and the doctor left the room together for a moment and she grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him desperately , with an air-lock in her throat as though she were in a temper .
27 And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl .
28 The sense of effort in his conversation staggered her , and she watched him with pity , for he laboured as though he were to try to write a sonnet , and all the while the conversation was predestined , unnecessary , a mere coin of payment .
29 Her face closed in and she eyed him with a return of the defiance and challenge he had seen in her eyes at first .
30 She writes to Armel that what matters in their narrative are ‘ the innumerable and ever-escaping levels of Utterance by the I who is not the I who says I ’ and she advises him to ‘ read Irigaray ’ on this concept ( 53/631 ) .
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