Example sentences of "her [noun pl] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite her attempts to have him killed , husband George Taylor pleaded with the Judge that his wife be spared a jail sentence . |
| 2 | He too had been strictly brought up but seems to have shrugged off his mother 's influence in that as easily as he resisted her attempts to make him a practising Jew . |
| 3 | But he had blocked all her attempts to anoint him with love and sympathy . |
| 4 | But her attempts to prise him away were met by violence and verbal aggression . |
| 5 | To Peggy Say , Anderson 's sister , it seemed that some particularly keen sympathy compelled North never to turn down her requests to see him , when all she would do was sit at his desk upbraiding him and complaining and crying ; and when all he could do was repeat , cryptically , infuriatingly , that the government was doing everything it could possibly think of . |
| 6 | She had been rapt at his every phrase , pen ready to score out any word or even a comma in her essays to please him . |
| 7 | Even so , the savagery of her words surprised him . |
| 8 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 9 | There was an infinitesimal silence as her words reached him , sank in . |
| 10 | She felt the wave of shock that ran through him as her words hit him . |
| 11 | At the dream 's end he permits her messengers to find him . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , Marc , ’ she sobbed , clinging to his neck and trying to let her lips tell him what he wanted to know . |
| 13 | Her eyes darted back to his and she studied him before parting her lips to give him his answer . |
| 14 | She parted her lips to tell him about Dana , then closed them again as a desperate plea from her twin made itself known as clearly as if Dana had been in the same room . |
| 15 | She felt his staff tremble , and she sucked with her lips to milk him with the expertise of a milkmaid . |
| 16 | The flash of hope in her eyes made him wish he could report a more substantial discovery than the meagre piece of intelligence he had to contribute . |
| 17 | She did , and the sudden flare of her eyes made him let her go . |
| 18 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 19 | Her eyes followed him as he unpacked the bike , and she wondered if he was just going to take it for granted that she would sleep with him of if he would offer her the choice . |
| 20 | He would not know what to do if her eyes told him to stay when Buddie had given him permission to leave . |
| 21 | The glazed expression in her eyes told him she was on drugs . |
| 22 | Once , feeling herself slipping away dangerously into another land , a land of sweet warmth , desire and sensation , she opened her eyes to see him watching her and , for a moment , Kelly felt uneasy , almost manipulated . |
| 23 | Her eyes rebuked him . |
| 24 | Her eyes left him and examined the rest of the room . |
| 25 | But I 'll be untouched and intact in the morning ! ’ she said , her eyes daring him to say otherwise . |
| 26 | He waved her to a comfortable old armchair , and she sank into its deep cushions , curling up apprehensively on the big seat , her eyes watching him guardedly , trembling at the thought of what he had in store for her . |
| 27 | Her eyes beseeched him for the truth . |
| 28 | He went to touch her , to put his hands on her shoulders , but the look in her eyes warned him off . |
| 29 | Her eyes appraised him and her thin fingers were spread towards him fan-wise , it was clear she expected some money . |
| 30 | The words blocked in her throat as her eyes begged him to help her out . |