Example sentences of "he [vb past] she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lowered her over the fountain until Robyn could see her own reflection in the water . |
| 2 | When the crackle of the flames , the creak of the floorboard , and the weight of their bodies returned , he lowered her to the carpet before the fire and sat himself beside her , leaning so that his face was only inches above hers . |
| 3 | With a groan he lowered her to the quilt and brought his head down . |
| 4 | Then he lowered her to the ground and shifted over her , and for a second it was like it had been before and fear touched her , but then his lips came down and brushed her mouth , and she was lost . |
| 5 | She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle . |
| 6 | Pushing the coverlet aside , he laid her on the bed , and sat down beside her , studying her white face . |
| 7 | Then he laid her on the bed and feasted his eyes on her , slender and seductive , totally naked except for the glowing ruby that flashed fire whenever she moved her hand . |
| 8 | Lifting her with incredible ease , he laid her across the desk and prising her legs open , spread his half-naked body over hers . |
| 9 | He ravished her like a lion , thrusting into her , his lips drawing out her life . |
| 10 | George knelt on gravel , and taking the knife more firmly in his hand he stabbed her in the stomach . |
| 11 | Mr Denny said : ‘ He then told her to put her clothes back on but out of the blue he stabbed her in the neck . |
| 12 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 13 | Then at a remote place on the bank of the River Swale he first sexually assaulted her and when she fought back he battered her about the head with a rock or rocks from the bank until he thought she was dead . ’ |
| 14 | He and his wife , Hannie , were living apart when , she said , he attacked her during an argument over financial support . |
| 15 | He collared her in the staff-room at eleven-thirty . |
| 16 | Then he pinned her against the wall , took up a karate stance and began punching her in the breast and armpit . |
| 17 | Actress Robin Givens gave the man a bloody nose after he mistook her for a hooker while she was filming in Chicago . |
| 18 | He pecked her on the cheek . |
| 19 | He passed her on the stairs . |
| 20 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |
| 21 | He remained an active supporter of CND , boasted that his daughter had been conceived on an Aldermaston march , and had once horrified Margaret Thatcher by wearing his CND badge when he met her at a gathering of northern business people . |
| 22 | ‘ Donald is desperately ill ! ’ was the first thing she said , as he met her in the hall . |
| 23 | He met her in the doorway . |
| 24 | He pierced her with a look . |
| 25 | He asked her about the place so much like the valley , the place where she 'd been born . |
| 26 | In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables . |
| 27 | Pat was having an affair — and in a crowded restaurant , he asked her at the top of the sentorian Williams voice : ‘ Well tell us about this man you 're having the affair with then . ’ |
| 28 | When he failed to persuade her to cancel it , he asked her for a date — and romance blossomed . |
| 29 | ‘ What 's — the matter this morning ? ’ she said , in the voice she had used when he asked her for an off-games note . |
| 30 | He led her under the shadow of the tarpaulin , which formed a sort of big , dusty cave . |