Example sentences of "he [verb] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt sorry for him again , and worried because it must hurt him to see her like that . |
| 2 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 3 | Aware only of the bumping of her heart and the pressuring of his mouth on hers even as he carried her through interminable pathways to the journey 's end , Sarella felt him lower her at last on to his bed . |
| 4 | Carrie said , ‘ She must be stark mad to come in and let him see her like that . |
| 5 | She closed her eyes and arched blindly against him , let him guide her into another kind of darkness , where that unknown vortex of emotion , that powerful pull of attraction between them swirled and hypnotised , and this time the stars behind her eyelids were brilliant but softly incandescent , fireworks of intense delight , bursting in her head … |
| 6 | Why could n't she have let him take her to one of those ? |
| 7 | Parliament was thus taking the marital exemption into realms uncontemplated even by Hale , who believed that it was one thing for a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent , quite another for him to force her into sexual intercourse with others . |
| 8 | He told himself that the man was arrogant , self-satisfied , and smelled of after-shave stuff ; Helen was an idiot to let him pester her like this . |
| 9 | She was n't going to let him affect her like this — never again ! she told herself desperately , taking a deep breath as she tried to ignore her racing pulse . |
| 10 | Looking up with a gasp , she saw him watching her with narrowed blue eyes , his mouth a hard line . |
| 11 | It was uncomfortable enough , knowing she would have to face him , but it was worse not to know when , to wonder if she would turn around suddenly and find him watching her with those cold , cold eyes … |
| 12 | She was standing straight , looking in his direction but seemingly through him , and the strange look on her face brought him around fully , and he was about to speak , not with the intention of giving her the true version of why he wanted to volunteer , for it was n't in him to hurt her to that extent , but she turned from him and , quietly opening the door , went out . |
| 13 | How dared he treat her like this — flirting first with Stephanie Marsa , and then cynically switching to her ? |
| 14 | He led her into one of his work alcoves where a hi-res VDR was set up . |
| 15 | He led her into another room , and there listened , with a good deal of amazement , to Rose 's account of her extraordinary conversation with Nancy . |
| 16 | He led her up some stairs to a steel gallery from which he said they would get a bird's-eye-view of the operation . |
| 17 | He invited her into one of his lesser parlours . |
| 18 | He regarded her with ironic eyes , his lips a little pursed . |
| 19 | He regarded her with lazy , sleepy eyes and said : |
| 20 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 21 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 22 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |
| 23 | He regarded her with undisguised affection . |
| 24 | He caught her in two strides and his expression was neither analytical nor taunting . |
| 25 | Christine fought for her balance as he grasped her with hooked fingers . |
| 26 | She went off with a GI during the war and he divorced her in nineteen forty-six . ’ |
| 27 | Without being aware of it , he punished her for this deeply felt bodily rejection in bed by withdrawing his body out of bed . |
| 28 | He entered her without further ado . |
| 29 | HE WOOED her with skew-whiff quotes from Shakespeare , pranced about in Chelsea football kit — minus the shorts — then bedded her on a futon with all the stamina of an 18-year-old . |
| 30 | Why was he hounding her like this ? |