Example sentences of "she [vb past] him [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was offering her an out and she respected him for that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her head turned slightly towards him and she fixed him with that blind , unthinking stare . |
| 8 | She needled him with such venom from behind her thick lenses that Seb was visibly squashed . |
| 9 | She informed him of this conclusion , and with his usual calm he accepted it . |
| 10 | The truth was there in his eyes , and she hated him for that , too . |
| 11 | She blamed him for all this . |
| 12 | She thanked him for that as well . |
| 13 | Years later , she acknowledged the debt she owed him for those early lessons in self-determination . |
| 14 | It was strange how she loved him for that business with Tommaso so long ago , how she had such a feeling for the intricate conventions of the old code , and saw him as a man of honour , a duellist . |
| 15 | He began to kiss her fingers , one by one , and Meredith gazed helplessly at him , knowing she loved him with such a sudden , painful realisation that she groaned aloud . |
| 16 | She watched him for several moments , then looked about the large dining-room , trying to fathom the reason for his actions . |
| 17 | Leith yelled , and as fury which she just could not contain spiralled out of control , her right hand arced through the air , and even as she hit him with all her strength , she was still yelling , ‘ Since it seems to be taking so long to sink in , you can bank on it — whoever pays my mortgage , you 're far , far at the back of the queue ! ’ |
| 18 | She rewarded him with such a beaming smile that he took the memory of it into the surgery with him , where it stayed all morning , brightening the day for him . |
| 19 | Beth was convinced that Matthew would run away if she took him from this house , then what would become of him ? |
| 20 | She saw him in all his beauty , grace and arrogance — physically the most nearly perfect human being she had ever seen . |
| 21 | Deeply suspicious of his motives , she treated him with all the most obvious display of distrust of which she was capable , but her efforts seemed to leave him cold , so she decided there was only one course left open to her . |
| 22 | I could n't help thinking she was like a racehorse , and when Ward started questioning her , she answered him with such haughty condescension , such arrogance , that his face went white and I swear he 'd have play-acted the Gorbals slum kid and thrown a lot of four-letter words at her if he 'd known how to do it in Spanish . |
| 23 | Was n't it about time she put him through some of the agony he 'd caused her ? |
| 24 | She liked him for that . |
| 25 | He spoke bitterly of the way she left him for another man , a student , when she was 16 then humiliated him by giving intimate details of their affair to the press . |
| 26 | ‘ Nature-lover , ’ he teased , and she knew then that she held him in some quite high regard . |