Example sentences of "she [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flung him into the Grand Canal . |
| 2 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 3 | At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school . |
| 4 | She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown . |
| 5 | Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room . |
| 6 | She seated him before the blaze of the bright fire ; she brought him , unasked , a glass of the Armagnac he preferred . |
| 7 | She led him down the side passage and pointed to a shelf . |
| 8 | She led him to the bedroom , and spreadeagled him on the bed before tying his wrists to the iron headrest . |
| 9 | She led him to the dismal apartment rented to her by Louis . |
| 10 | Taking his hand , she led him to the bed and lay down . |
| 11 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
| 12 | Back at the hotel , instead of heading for the bedroom , she led him to the bar , where they took a couple of glasses of malt and fell to chatting with some locals who 'd ‘ just dropped by to have a nightcap ’ despite the fact it was gone midnight and they all had work to go to in the morning . |
| 13 | She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared . |
| 14 | She led him into the sitting room . |
| 15 | She led him into the semicircular hall with its high vaulted ceiling from which a chandelier threw its bright light over the pale lemon and white walls . |
| 16 | She led him into the kitchen where the fire burnt cheerfully in the grate . |
| 17 | Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past . |
| 18 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |
| 19 | She led him through the main tannery to where a pile of raw sheep skins lay , and still with her light eyes on him lay down . |
| 20 | For a moment animosity was swept away by mutual interest and , as she led him towards the recovery cage , she felt a pang of regret that their relationship could not be friendly . |
| 21 | Instead of saying so , she pecked him on the cheek . |
| 22 | Why could n't she treat him with the same cool indifference as he showed her ? |
| 23 | The next time he went to church she waylaid him after the evening service , and tried to persuade him to enter the hall , where — as he had guessed — a cup of tea was about to be made . |
| 24 | Dragging at the dog , she got him off the bed , and looked up at the visitor , whom she did not know . |
| 25 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 26 | She asked him about the beer kegs and he pointed to a flight of wooden stairs at the end of the hall . |
| 27 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
| 28 | Hubert James Bainbridge , tenth earl of Donnington , called out to his daughter as she passed him on the opposite side of the street , but she did not hear him . |
| 29 | When she passed him on the stairs his expression told her he scarcely knew she was there . |
| 30 | He was clad in a short towelling robe , and his hair was damp , and he was clearly on his way back from taking a shower when , on her way to carry out her own ablutions , she passed him in the sitting-room . |