Example sentences of "he [verb] she the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 2 | But if she 'd been frank from the outset and had admitted to him that she 'd been sent by his stepmother with the plea for him to visit her the result would have been short and sharp . |
| 3 | St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push . |
| 4 | She felt a deep , sensual pleasure as she held his leaping , quivering manhood in check , but the heat of him was so dangerously exciting that she arched herself in mute supplication , begging him to give her the release that her body craved . |
| 5 | She would fall and make him drag her the rest of the way first . |
| 6 | She asked him to teach her the trick , but he said that she was not ready yet . |
| 7 | He passed her the phone . |
| 8 | He passed her the can . |
| 9 | Pointing to the right fork , he passed her the stick . |
| 10 | He passed her the document and she read it , fast the first time , slowly the second . |
| 11 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |
| 12 | Then one time when he was doing some other business with the woman we called Mrs Howard , he sold her the story for a few marks . |
| 13 | ‘ And why would he promise her the job ? ’ |
| 14 | He told her the gift was Belle Maman 's idea . |
| 15 | When he told her the truth it sounded like cruelty . |
| 16 | If he told her the fence would be best in barbed wire she 'd believe him . |
| 17 | Blanche plugged in the electric kettle and spooned coffee into the percolator while she listened to the sergeant 's account of his afternoon , swearing softly when he told her the news from the forensic labs . |
| 18 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 19 | He passes her the joint . |
| 20 | He assured her the job would not be too demanding . |
| 21 | Back into the cottage he showed her the way and gave her so |
| 22 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 23 | He showed her the caving ones first , and then they paused for supper before going back to look at the ones of his son . |
| 24 | But why had n't he told her the truth ? |
| 25 | When he handed her the cocoa she looked up at him and said , ‘ Only three weeks to Christmas . |
| 26 | He handed her the bottle at arm 's length . |
| 27 | He handed her the bottle of oil , and she watched him undress . |
| 28 | Here — ’ And he handed her the lamp , which had been designed to be portable . |
| 29 | The advice sounded incomprehensible to her but when he handed her the phone receiver back , the car man said , ‘ OK , I 've got that . |
| 30 | ‘ OK , ’ he said , taking her money and recounting it before he handed her the ticket . |