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

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31 She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel .
32 Satisfied , she helped him into the bath and began soaping him all over ; as usual , he bawled loudly when it came to washing his hair .
33 Then , as he simply smiled , she regarded him over the top of it .
34 Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground .
35 She caught him by the hand .
36 She caught him in the hall as he put on his hat .
37 ‘ Mr Marsh , I wonder if I might accept your offer of help , ’ she said when she found him in the vestry .
38 She found him in the kitchen , a big L-shaped room , like the house , dominated by an Aga cooker at one end , and a round table set in the shorter alcove .
39 Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs .
40 Finally , with contemptuous ease , she lured him under the t'gallant and hacked at a shroud which parted , dumping a heavy chunk of rigging on the miscast Orin .
41 She pursued him to the porter 's desk .
42 She let him into the flat , where the television was on .
43 Just as the dance was finishing she drew him towards the door .
44 Taking Mungo 's hand in hers , which was clawed with arthritis , she drew him into the house .
45 She poked him in the chest .
46 She poked him in the shoulder , her bright smile belying the force she had used .
47 She shepherded him towards the Captain talking all the time .
48 Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) .
49 She blames him for the break-up of the coterie .
50 She was still shaking her head from side to side and laughing softly when she shooed him from the kitchen and returned her attention to her magazine .
51 Has she met him in the Three Pigeons ?
52 To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning .
53 She schooled him on the lunge and in a fenced paddock over jumps , and then out in the fields and then out on the marshes , accompanying him on her own eventer and leading him over ditches and fences .
54 In the dawn grey with sea mist she drove him to the airport .
55 Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields .
56 She told him on the bus , nerving herself , that the children were Charlie 's but that she had undertaken of her own accord not to tell anyone else because Charlie was the sort of person who could n't be lumbered .
57 He now faces the agony of receiving a letter she told him on the phone that she 'd written the day before she died .
58 What would he say if she told him of the background that had left her with a deep and enduring mistrust of men ?
59 She told him about the anti-blood-sports campaigner .
60 She told him about the Elder , and of the eternity of memories he had poured unasked into her head .
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