Example sentences of "[subord] he have [verb] her [prep] " in BNC.

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1 John gave the leading part , of the woman whose husband is drowned , to a young dancer he had not previously created for , although he had partnered her in Khadra , Sheilah O'Reilly .
2 Although she had never said so , his instinct had told him immediately he 'd seen her with Harry that she was in love with the young man — a devastatingly handsome young man — whose manner towards Alice had been affectionate but certainly not lover-like .
3 Jacob , looking at her , thought she seemed happier than he had seen her in years .
4 But there was no denying that today his wife was better than he had known her for many many months .
5 Charlotte Ladram was more obviously nervous than he had known her to be on any previous occasion and professed herself reluctant to remain indoors , let alone cook a meal .
6 Penry was tactful enough to leave her to her own devices once he 'd directed her to a chemist .
7 A moral is drawn advising husbands : ( Do just as Hain did with his wife , who would only ever show him the slightest respect , until he had beaten her to the core . )
8 It was possible that he , too , had not troubled himself with thoughts of her real life until he had seen her in the garden with Ben .
9 It was as if he had slapped her in the face .
10 If he had kissed her with passion or some brutal demand to impose his will on her then she could have found the strength to fight him , but there was no way she could resist this aching tenderness , this joining that made them one whole .
11 She 'd hoped , thought , it would be nice if he had taken her to lunch sometimes , or let her stay to breakfast in his room at the Franz Joseph instead of pushing her out early and sending her back to the Gasthaus .
12 His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time .
13 Giancarlo took her arm courteously as if he had known her for years , and , followed by his guests , led her out of the sun on the terrace and into the shade at the side of the house .
14 And surely he would n't have omitted to teach it to her if he had planted her as another spy for them .
15 As she stared into her bemused eyes , he slowly smiled , and in that moment she would have committed murder if he 'd asked her to .
16 He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them .
17 If he 'd strangled her on impulse it would have been there , and he could have slid her weighted body into the river , no one the wiser . ’
18 He wanted her badly , and if he 'd taken her in his arms she did n't think she would have put up any kind of resistance .
19 When he came , it was an anticlimax , but she squealed anyway and clung to him as if he 'd showered her with a gallon of spunk .
20 For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment .
21 If he 'd got her to that state , why was she drinking coffee ?
22 Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them .
23 The husband will be presumed , in the ordinary case where husband and wife live together , and she orders goods to meet the household needs , to have authorized her to pledge his credit for that purpose , unless he has supplied her with sufficient ready money .
24 She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart …
25 First Nathan had thought she was easy because he had seen her with Giles .
26 When the manacle was unlocked a weeping ulcer was exposed , and he was sickened , not by the sight of it , but because he had failed her in not acting sooner .
27 Susie had been secretive partly because of who she was — a different woman might have confronted him openly — but partly because he had driven her to it .
28 Christ is the Bridegroom ; the Church is his bride , whom he loves because he has gained her by his blood .
29 For the first time since he had told her about Carol , Helen found that she could think about Adrian with something like calm .
30 ‘ Who are you ? ’ the teenager asked after he had led her into the main concourse .
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