Example sentences of "he [verb] she in a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
2 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
3 | He helped her in a two-year battle against cancer and to come to terms with her double mastectomy . |
4 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
5 | He fixed her in a maddened stare and she saw the blood running from his gashed hand . |
6 | ‘ The only way you 're going to hurt me is by running away from me , ’ he told her in a rough voice . |
7 | ‘ I would n't bother coming back , ’ he told her in a detached voice . |
8 | ‘ It is a lucky man or woman , ’ he told her in a soft voice , ‘ who is blessed with the privilege of being able to pick and choose the challenges he or she must face in life . |
9 | Fernando smiled thinly as he cocooned her in a fluffy towel and rubbed her back to dry her . |
10 | During their conversation he watched her in a worried way . |
11 | He circled her in a 20 metre circle , changed the rein through two half-circles and repeated the performance on the left rein . |
12 | He put her in an open boat , with no oars , at the mouth of the River Aberlessie which , the chronicle says , was called ‘ The Mouth of Stench ’ because of the thousands of rotting fish cast on the sands . |
13 | After several hours Matron managed to calm him down but he left her in a terrible mood . |
14 | Once inside he left her in a dim , dingy room where she sat with her bundle and the firm belief that the cruel joke would soon be over and she 'd be taken back to her ward . |
15 | His face set grimly , he wrapped her in a warm , dry bathsheet , then sat her on a stool and sponged her face , smoothing the tangled curls from her pallid face . |
16 | He wrapped her in a scarlet blanket , and carried her up the outside area steps . |