Example sentences of "she [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She hugged him to her , stayed by his side , let him speak when he wanted to speak , held him when he cried .
2 She failed him as a great ‘ silver ’ power , as a naval power at Trafalgar , and by 1807 her domestic polities were so confused by court intrigue that she appeared scarcely a reliable political ally .
3 She flung him into the Grand Canal .
4 A senior detective said : ‘ The married woman said she met him on a plane .
5 ‘ She was a married woman , who said she met him on a plane , ’ a senior detective told TODAY .
6 She met him on a forest track , ran him down and did her best to kill him .
7 She met him on board ship ? ’
8 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 .
9 That 's how she met him at relatives party .
10 At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school .
11 She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown .
12 Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room .
13 She seated him before the blaze of the bright fire ; she brought him , unasked , a glass of the Armagnac he preferred .
14 When she attacked him with a 12-inch butcher 's knife , he punched her , and that brought that troubled relationship to a troubled end .
15 He did n't love her , of course , not that she expected him to , but he had n't been backward in the lovemaking department , had he ?
16 She led him down the side passage and pointed to a shelf .
17 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 .
18 On the third floor , she led him to one of four doors , which opened on to a firelit bedroom , with a great canopied bed , steaming water-jugs and wash-basin , and a garderobe in the thickness of the walling with candle-shelf , stone seat and chute .
19 She led him to the bedroom , and spreadeagled him on the bed before tying his wrists to the iron headrest .
20 She led him to the dismal apartment rented to her by Louis .
21 Taking his hand , she led him to the bed and lay down .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Wordlessly , she led him to her bedroom and turned towards him , reaching for the long zip on his leather suit .
25 She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared .
26 She led him into the sitting room .
27 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 .
28 She led him into the kitchen where the fire burnt cheerfully in the grate .
29 Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past .
30 She led him into a room off the hall , a room which ran the length of the house with a window at each 0d .
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