Example sentences of "she [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She presumed he meant they had not expected her , but she liked the ambiguity in his English . |
| 32 | With growing awareness — and wariness — he had started to notice that Sandra worked at being what he wanted her to be , or at least what she presumed he wanted her to be . |
| 33 | She empowered him to get the tank , the section of drainpipe , the guttering . |
| 34 | I think about phoning her mobile but she hates me doing that so I do n't . |
| 35 | With Betty against a wall and I pressing her lips with mine , she requested me to put my tongue into her mouth ‘ the French way ’ she said . |
| 36 | ‘ I do n't think that she expected me to run down the shot ’ said Emmons , referring to her magnificent dash across the baseline to reach an all but winning forehand from Bentley which would have given her not only the first set , but also the psychological ‘ first blood ’ . |
| 37 | She could not see why her mother wanted her , nor what she expected her to do in Northam , and whenever she mentioned the subject to others they exclaimed in horror , commiserating with her , telling her that she must be firm , never for half a moment assuming that she could or would really do it . |
| 38 | Whatever Laura 's motives — Moira believes she expected her to take injections or pills to dry up her milk supply entirely ; Bernard believes she was opposed to mothers returning to work so soon — the atmosphere was charged . |
| 39 | He was n't sure what she expected him to do . |
| 40 | Edouard , moved by her words , lifted his hand gently to touch her arm and , to his horror , she flinched as if she expected him to hit her . |
| 41 | She could n't finish because that would be pushy if she admitted she expected him to ask her to stay with him as he had done once before . |
| 42 | She expected him to take the opportunity to cross-question her about the murder . |
| 43 | She said nothing , but hungrily returned to the carrion to take what more she could , as if she expected him to take the rest from her . |
| 44 | She expected him to keep looking over his shoulder to make sure that all the fuss was not intended for the man behind . |
| 45 | She realised she was gripping the gun with two hands and had trained it on his chest , as if she expected him to leap up at any moment and lunge at her . |
| 46 | She expected him to protect her . |
| 47 | She was n't sure how she expected him to help , but the need to confide in someone was overwhelming . |
| 48 | He banged his cup down on its saucer , so hard that she expected it to shatter . |
| 49 | The set was so tacky she expected it to collapse each time one of the characters came through the door . |
| 50 | As a girl in Spain she had gone there with her mother and when later she became Empress of France , as the wife of Napoleon III , she made him go there too . |
| 51 | She did n't want to see what she had done to his craggy yet handsome face , so she made him go away . |
| 52 | He enjoyed brushing it , even when she made him stand so long behind her chair that his arms ached and his eyelids started to droop . |
| 53 | She made him stand idly on the sidewalk while she made a big deal of paying the cab driver . |
| 54 | She made him laugh , he said , and in any case prettiness did n't matter . |
| 55 | But he was crazy about her , and how she made him laugh ! |
| 56 | She made him do it . ’ |
| 57 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 58 | She made him feel frightened , but as she lay down , eyes closed , on her side and facing him , something else in her , some frail , scavenging eroticism made him shake with desire . |
| 59 | By looking for faults in his behaviour , by constantly diminishing him with little criticisms — he neglected their boy ( at school in Randung ) , he was cold , he was selfish , he was an inadequate and clumsy lover ( did she dare ) , he never listened to other people , he had no sense of direction because he was always getting her lost in foreign capitals — she made him feel a kind of leper , different from and inferior to the run of men . |
| 60 | You know , she made him sit down in the middle in front of everybody you see |