Example sentences of "she [verb] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She led him along deserted , echoing corridors ; nothing was happening in the whole enormous building , he realized , but the tiny preparations for this one tiny programme . |
| 2 | On the third floor , she led him to one of four doors , which opened on to a firelit bedroom , with a great canopied bed , steaming water-jugs and wash-basin , and a garderobe in the thickness of the walling with candle-shelf , stone seat and chute . |
| 3 | He was offering her an out and she respected him for that . |
| 4 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 5 | There is no lasting acrimony between Gedge and Rigby and when they meet up he often jokes that she provided him with enough material to launch and sustain a musical career . |
| 6 | She helped him in other ways also — she was a chauffeuse on occasions , tended him when he was ill , and sometimes acted as a secretary . |
| 7 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 8 | And now she caught him in another gesture , but a surreptitious one this time — the quick shooting of a cuff to glance at his watch . |
| 9 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 10 | She shrivelled him with one glance . |
| 11 | Dressed soberly in a long-sleeved , ankle-length tunic which , though cut loosely , came high up to her neck , she approached him with both hands extended in greeting . |
| 12 | Her voice and the rattle of pots faded away into the house , and he heard , close to , Annie 's uncontrolled chortle as she approached him with some wicked intent . |
| 13 | Her head turned slightly towards him and she fixed him with that blind , unthinking stare . |
| 14 | She fixed him with anxious eyes . |
| 15 | ‘ I am not walking to any hut with you , ’ she assured him with icy defiance . |
| 16 | ‘ Thank you so much for the advice , ’ she told him with icy calm , ‘ but I can assure you that it was n't necessary . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Oh … oh , so was mine , ’ she told him with hasty fervour . |
| 18 | ‘ There are other ways , ’ she told him with Spartan vigour . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , I can think of several things , ’ she told him with soft-voiced hostility . |
| 20 | And then , pulling herself together , she told him through clenched teeth , ‘ Tim is not my lover ! ’ |
| 21 | He must always believe the things she told him about other people , especially those in his father 's family , but Frankie sometimes found her instructions very hard to understand . |
| 22 | She told him about open heart surgery , and lasers ; about credit cards and the cost of living , and the vast expense involved when buying a moderately sized residence like Rose Cottage , which he regarded as little short of scandalous , totally unable to begin to comprehend such vast sums of money being paid for such a relatively small return . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll sign the agreement , ’ she told him in clipped tones . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She needled him with such venom from behind her thick lenses that Seb was visibly squashed . |
| 26 | She ripped him into little pieces . |
| 27 | ‘ I was n't aware there was anyone awake when I decided to swim , ’ she informed him with regal hauteur . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've no business being here , ’ she informed him with razor-edged control . |
| 29 | She informed him of this conclusion , and with his usual calm he accepted it . |
| 30 | She welcomed him with outstretched arms as he came to her , knowing there was no retreat now and glorying in the thought of her forthcoming submission . |