Example sentences of "he [verb] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina had remained silent after Rune 's surprise announcement , allowing him to conduct her through the gates and across the road to the Mercedes . |
| 2 | It had indeed been , as it happened , impossible for him to see her at the times she suggested . |
| 3 | It never was when she invited him to meet her at the flat ; she was keeping him and Stock out of each other 's way . |
| 4 | Had he viewed her as an exciting and unusual lay , and believed that she would n't let him screw her without a hard-luck , my wife-doesn't-understand-me line to spin ? |
| 5 | The two newspapers reporting this case both focused on his claim that sex taunts from his 56-year-old wife over his impotency provoked him to strangle her with a flex . |
| 6 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 7 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 8 | Numbly Rory allowed him to lead her to the dance floor , moving automatically into his arms as though she 'd always belonged there . |
| 9 | Rachel 's pulses thundered as she allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor beneath the flashing lights . |
| 10 | Rachel allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor , but his callous dismissal of the unfortunate Domino was symptomatic of the kind of man he was . |
| 11 | But still less did she want to make a scene or create any kind of curiosity amongst the people she had just left , so she allowed him to lead her from the room , saying , ‘ Yes , we needed to discuss those — er — charts , did n't we , Dr Russell ? ’ in case anyone was still listening . |
| 12 | She had expected him to lead her around the side of the house towards the gravelled front courtyard ; instead he headed in the opposite direction , down through the wide grass path into the garden itself . |
| 13 | It protested at once , so she let him carry her to the living-room . |
| 14 | She allowed him to corner her in the pantry . |
| 15 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 16 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 17 | ‘ A few seconds , ’ she replied , allowing him to help her onto the adjacent bar stool . |
| 18 | She had been surprised to find that he did n't feel it beneath him to help her in the house . |
| 19 | Mr Sunderland himself had driven her home in his car , and she had begged him to leave her at the gate so as not to alarm her family . |
| 20 | The most upsetting thing was that it made her realise just how much she had been allowing him to guide her in the decision , putting her desire to leave the nurses ' home and her pleasure at Dr Entwistle 's recommendation very much in second place . |
| 21 | Forcing herself to assume a composure she was far from feeling , Gina allowed him to usher her from the small lobby behind the front door into a living-room of graceful proportions . |
| 22 | She would n't let him take her to the Aber House Hotel . |
| 23 | And her suppliant 's face , round and even in this twilight , thickly flushed in the hectic way that he had seen before , repulsed him and made him take her by the arm she had raised and move it like a detached limb back to her side . |
| 24 | Forced on to what she really meant to say , Kate fumbles for words , absurdly feeling she has to simplify , patronise in order for him to understand her in a language foreign to him , that she must not hurt his feelings , he is part of the oppressed majority , colonised daily by the people she has come to work for . |
| 25 | For him to endorse her as a ‘ major literary figure ’ sticks in his gullet . |
| 26 | She forbade him to accompany her beyond the door and walked alone over the golden sand past the flower-beds to the gate . |
| 27 | On the evening before his body was found she had organised a baby-sitter to look after their two children and invited him to accompany her to a function at Dowman 's British Steel Club , but he had refused to go and instead went out alone . |
| 28 | She 'd never been the crying sort — but it just took a few well-chosen words from him to reduce her to a jelly . |
| 29 | Miserably she allowed him to settle her in the taxi . |
| 30 | She wanted Roman 's arms around her , she wanted to feel him againt her without the barrier of clothes , but there were things she had to say before she could allow that to happen . |