Example sentences of "she [vb past] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slanted him a scornful glance . |
| 2 | She flung him a savage little smile . |
| 3 | He advanced towards her and she flung him a look full of wrath , annoyingly conscious of his height and the wide breadth of his shoulders . |
| 4 | She met him a few days after she started the job . |
| 5 | He 'd allowed her closer than anyone else , and when his clothes were off and he was tired she read him the way she read the weather or the mountains or the dust , she ran her fingers over his pale , scarred body and she guessed close to the truth . |
| 6 | She made him a sandwich and brought it to the table . |
| 7 | He begged her not to miss the party they were invited to on his account , so she made him a hot drink , turned on the TV and , making no bones about it , said she would be back in the morning . |
| 8 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 9 | He was going out with a silly cow of an art student and she lent him the book . |
| 10 | Then she asked him a question in Yorkshire dialect , because that was his language . |
| 11 | ‘ Is this a regular haunt of yours ? ’ she asked him a little waspishly . |
| 12 | Perhaps if she asked him a simple , straightforward question she would receive a simple , straightforward answer in return . |
| 13 | ‘ There , Mr Cottle , ’ Mary Ann was saying to the traveller in jelly , as she passed him the bread and butter , ‘ this 'll put roses in your cheeks . ’ |
| 14 | When she passed him the number of her room ( thinking no one else knew she had ) and left to await him , he remained in the ballroom drinking , and when I left at midnight he was still there looking bored and lonely , missing his live-in girlfriend Marie Lisa Volpelierre ( who not long after died so tragically in a riding accident ) . |
| 15 | Their hands touched as she passed him the bottle . |
| 16 | She passed him the tin and the spoon , and lay on the floor looking at the gas fire , and then she went to sleep . |
| 17 | She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley . |
| 18 | She bore him a third son , but a difficult carriage and birth presaged troubles which eventually cost her her life in her forties . |
| 19 | In Paris , in March 1881 , she bore him a daughter , who was christened Jeanne-Marie , with the surname of Langtry . |
| 20 | Her hand came up and she caught him a stinging blow across the cheek , watching without a flicker as the mark turned first white , then red . |
| 21 | She found him a new toothbrush in its unbroken wrap , and said , ‘ It 's a pity about Sir George . |
| 22 | She found him a ‘ rather stern-featured man ’ , with a strong Northumbrian accent and seems to have preferred the ‘ Rocket ’ which she described as ‘ This snorting little animal , which I felt inclined to pat … ’ and so ranks among the first to fall under the spell of the steam locomotive . |
| 23 | They talked over a meal that was prepared especially for her , and she found him a charming and entertaining companion . |
| 24 | They met ; he found her company agreeable , she found him a new slogan . |
| 25 | In many respects she found him an enigma . |
| 26 | She cast him a glance . |
| 27 | She cast him a scathing look . |
| 28 | But as the lane turned into the metalled road , and Vitor remained mute , she cast him a glance . |
| 29 | She drew him the length of her body , and he glided into her as she kissed his mouth . |
| 30 | Thrilled , but trying not to let it show , she darted him a look from under her lashes . |