Example sentences of "he [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina had remained silent after Rune 's surprise announcement , allowing him to conduct her through the gates and across the road to the Mercedes . |
| 2 | It had indeed been , as it happened , impossible for him to see her at the times she suggested . |
| 3 | She felt sorry for him again , and worried because it must hurt him to see her like that . |
| 4 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 5 | Aware only of the bumping of her heart and the pressuring of his mouth on hers even as he carried her through interminable pathways to the journey 's end , Sarella felt him lower her at last on to his bed . |
| 6 | He had n't seen her , but the closeness of him moved her to flight . |
| 7 | It never was when she invited him to meet her at the flat ; she was keeping him and Stock out of each other 's way . |
| 8 | She was hardly aware of him stripping her of her clothes before his tongue started its own journey of exploration . |
| 9 | Had he viewed her as an exciting and unusual lay , and believed that she would n't let him screw her without a hard-luck , my wife-doesn't-understand-me line to spin ? |
| 10 | The two newspapers reporting this case both focused on his claim that sex taunts from his 56-year-old wife over his impotency provoked him to strangle her with a flex . |
| 11 | Consequently it is necessary for him to provide her with feedback so that she is aware that her opinion is duly considered . |
| 12 | Victorious in war , and victorious also against the wiles of amorous Atene , Leo is taken to the ruler , who reveals herself to him as Ayesha and challenges him to view her in her hideous age . |
| 13 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 14 | To look at him filled her with too many confusing feelings . |
| 15 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 16 | Numbly Rory allowed him to lead her to the dance floor , moving automatically into his arms as though she 'd always belonged there . |
| 17 | Rachel 's pulses thundered as she allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor beneath the flashing lights . |
| 18 | Rachel allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor , but his callous dismissal of the unfortunate Domino was symptomatic of the kind of man he was . |
| 19 | But still less did she want to make a scene or create any kind of curiosity amongst the people she had just left , so she allowed him to lead her from the room , saying , ‘ Yes , we needed to discuss those — er — charts , did n't we , Dr Russell ? ’ in case anyone was still listening . |
| 20 | She had expected him to lead her around the side of the house towards the gravelled front courtyard ; instead he headed in the opposite direction , down through the wide grass path into the garden itself . |
| 21 | It embarrassed him to receive her in his dressing-gown . |
| 22 | Only her resolve not to irritate him prevented her from letting the scissors stray towards his temptingly close ears , and she swallowed hard on the furious retort which jumped to her lips . |
| 23 | It protested at once , so she let him carry her to the living-room . |
| 24 | She allowed him to corner her in the pantry . |
| 25 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 26 | Carrie said , ‘ She must be stark mad to come in and let him see her like that . |
| 27 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 28 | He had not gone because his mother was always asking him to help her with things that she could have done perfectly well by herself . |
| 29 | ‘ A few seconds , ’ she replied , allowing him to help her onto the adjacent bar stool . |
| 30 | She had been surprised to find that he did n't feel it beneath him to help her in the house . |