Example sentences of "she [vb past] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was going out with a silly cow of an art student and she lent him the book . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Their hands touched as she passed him the bottle . |
| 6 | She passed him the tin and the spoon , and lay on the floor looking at the gas fire , and then she went to sleep . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She drew him the length of her body , and he glided into her as she kissed his mouth . |
| 9 | ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass . |
| 10 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 11 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 12 | Arriving at the School with Jasper and Bienvida in a borrowed beat-up Ford van , its roofrack loaded with launderette bags of clothes and its inside with her sticks of furniture ( sticks was the word ) , she told him the advertisement would only attract riff-raff . |
| 13 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 14 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 15 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 16 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 17 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 18 | Would he listen to her when she told him the truth about Janice ? |
| 19 | She handed him the tube , being fairly and correctly sure he would not ask her outright to rub it in for him . |
| 20 | She handed him the glass . |
| 21 | As she handed him the cup of tea her tone changed : ‘ Not that I 'm against joking , but everything in its place ; when I 'm here with Aunt Lizzie , we chaff each other , but … but not all the time . ’ |
| 22 | She handed him the pictures . |
| 23 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 24 | She handed him the reel . |
| 25 | She handed him the journal , knowing , even before he confirmed it , whose it was . |
| 26 | She handed him the two parts of the torch and waited for him to piece the thing together . |
| 27 | She handed him the beer and their fingers touched briefly . |
| 28 | Her father-in-law watched her , sleepily , admiringly , then asked for one too ; she handed him the fruit whole . |
| 29 | She handed him the woebegone bouquet , the bird 's head dangling , its coxcomb a broken-stemmed blossom ; he took it , bowed his head , and pinched the child 's cheek as he showed his teeth gritted in greedy affection , the expression that says to children , ‘ Aahah ! |
| 30 | Merrill protested as she handed him the file . |