Example sentences of "she [vb past] 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 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 5 | She fixed him with anxious eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not walking to any hut with you , ’ she assured him with icy defiance . |
| 7 | ‘ Thank you so much for the advice , ’ she told him with icy calm , ‘ but I can assure you that it was n't necessary . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Oh … oh , so was mine , ’ she told him with hasty fervour . |
| 9 | ‘ There are other ways , ’ she told him with Spartan vigour . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , I can think of several things , ’ she told him with soft-voiced hostility . |
| 11 | And then , pulling herself together , she told him through clenched teeth , ‘ Tim is not my lover ! ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll sign the agreement , ’ she told him in clipped tones . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She ripped him into little pieces . |
| 17 | ‘ I was n't aware there was anyone awake when I decided to swim , ’ she informed him with regal hauteur . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've no business being here , ’ she informed him with razor-edged control . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She stripped him with nimble fingers , and when the task was done , folded his hairy scrotum into the palm of her cool hand . |
| 21 | She watched him with stormy eyes , the gold chain which she wore around her neck rising and falling with each agitated breath she drew . |
| 22 | She watched him with angry green eyes . |
| 23 | She watched him in reluctant fascination as he put to her , ‘ When it comes to being irresponsible , your brother , I 'm afraid , has already proved himself to be in the top league . ’ |
| 24 | She comforted him with lavish endearments before turning back to Wycliffe . |
| 25 | She viewed him with deep suspicion , all too conscious of the threat underlying his words . |
| 26 | As she turned she saw him with startling clarity , brightly instantaneous as a camera flash . |
| 27 | She kicked him in mock outrage . |
| 28 | At the door , she embraced him in wordless grief . |