Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] she [verb] him the " in BNC.

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1 In what seems a somewhat specious argument , she urges Leo to bathe with her in the fire so that their mortal sins may be purged : but although the fire at first seems to do her no harm as she shows him the way into it , the self-seeking nature of her love becomes evident as her ageless beauty is destroyed :
2 That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions .
3 a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent .
4 He was going out with a silly cow of an art student and she lent him the book .
5 She had expected him to leave her but he stayed watching her quietly , picking a biscuit off the plate himself , sharing her milk when she offered him the glass .
6 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 ?
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