Example sentences of "her [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She maintains that , when the president recruited her to support him against Mr Sharif , he promised to dissolve the assemblies . |
| 2 | Even the call asking her to see him at his office had been made by a secretary . |
| 3 | It hurt her to see him like this , resorting to holding her here to get revenge on Steve . |
| 4 | Such remarks , though a backhanded compliment in their implied assumption of her intelligence , made her hate him with such an intensity that she could actually feel herself start to tremble and sweat . |
| 5 | Even though in giving advice to her brother 's wife she had told her to forgive him for his infidelity and take him back , which is what Karenin was doing for her and exactly what she did n't want . |
| 6 | She did n't seem to be as strong as in her young days , and the socks stopped her catching him with her toenails . |
| 7 | ‘ May I still have the interview with you which you promised ? ’ she asked straight out — and thought for a few seconds , as he looked sternly at her , that she had blown it , and that he had taken the strongest exception to her reminding him of his promise . |
| 8 | But he drew back , and taking her hand , forced her to caress him in a way that revolted her . |
| 9 | It would have been cheaper to have taken the coach , if longer , but Dr Bailey had sent a curt postcard telling him it would be best for her to meet him off the noon train ; the campus was some way out of town , it would be best that way . |
| 10 | Something about him was beginning to needle her , challenging her to meet him on his own terms . |
| 11 | It was Urquhart , telling her to meet him in half an hour outside the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane . |
| 12 | When , after his assaults on her , she begs to be allowed to leave , her instinctive feeling for him makes her provide him with some hope of her return , or at least of their future communication . |
| 13 | She flattered herself this was done discreetly , and was noticed by no-one , though the yearning in her look as she gazed at him would be obvious to a child of five , and the staff made frequent jokes about her loving him with a love that made his life a burden . |
| 14 | It was still daylight as Rune , having parked the car and guided her across the road , stood back to let her precede him through the Tivoli turnstiles . |
| 15 | She stood up to walk stiffly around the desk , glaring at him as he stepped politely to one side and let her precede him from the room . |
| 16 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 17 | I could hear her scolding him for not having contacted her sooner , not having brought me to see her , asking whether I was safe , was someone with me , who was looking after me . |
| 18 | Lucien wondered whether Walterkin had bribed her to let him into the cubicle . |
| 19 | He gestured for her to precede him through the door . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll live with it , ’ Luke answered somewhat grimly , waiting for her to precede him into an empty lift as the door slid open . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed , though while she felt it would not be right for her to question him about his employer , she could see no reason — since he must be aware of the contents of Ven Gajdusek 's desk diary — for not mentioning , ‘ I came here specifically to interview Mr Gajdusek last Friday , but — ’ |
| 22 | He liked her to phone him for two reasons — it kept his phone bills down and if Gina answered it proved that he was fancied . |
| 23 | He indicated to her to accompany him along the quay , where a litter awaited . |
| 24 | The only activity Gerald had forbidden her was the embroidery of tapestry , which he had declared too menial an occupation for a young lady of her intelligence , preferring her to accompany him on his visits to neighbouring landlords as she had done that day . |
| 25 | In time for her to accompany him to China , he married Constance Rawdon , daughter of James W. Scott of Westlands , Queenstown , county Cork . |
| 26 | Now that he 'd told her he wanted the club , Adam would probably expect her to keep him at a wary arm 's length . |
| 27 | Naylor butted in , and , staring at him , Leith could see , where no one else could , that he was daring her to contradict him at her peril . |
| 28 | Releasing her abruptly , fitzAlan pulled Isabel 's arms away from him and held them , gazing down at her face as if the sight of her tormented him beyond bearing and yet he still could not bring himself to look away . |
| 29 | and Andrew he did n't want her to hold him in the water , he wanted to walk |
| 30 | She had laid him in Dot 's arms and let her hold him on her own . |