Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] he [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no idea how exhausted she would be , how lethargic , and she opened her eyes slowly to find him watching her , his breathing still ragged . |
| 2 | She did so want him to kiss her . |
| 3 | It did not displease him ; she would make him a suitable wife , and would know her place when , as he hoped still , he had elevated his position enough to enable him to support her . |
| 4 | It did not displease him ; she would make him a suitable wife , and would know her place when , as he hoped still , he had elevated his position enough to enable him to support her . |
| 5 | She darted a look at Niall 's profile , only to find him studying her in a way she found oddly disturbing . |
| 6 | And she had been fool enough to let him draw her in to it . |
| 7 | When he came into the office , past Selinda his secretary , an elderly woman who was constantly asking him to give her ‘ something interesting to do ’ ( How could he ? |
| 8 | By so doing he provides her with some immunity against the chronic depression which afflicts so many mothers of pre-school age children , and which in turn undermines their abilities as parents . |
| 9 | The thought sobered her enough to allow him to urge her onwards . |
| 10 | For Vitor , women offering themselves up to him must be an occupational hazard ; so did he regard her as yet one more race-track groupie ? |
| 11 | How long had he known her ? |
| 12 | How long had he known her ? |
| 13 | She did not think he noticed her . |
| 14 | I do not think he married her particularly for love , but for the sake of his daughters , as people did in those days ; and it might have seemed that she was ideally suited for this , with her quiet , dignified manner , and she having been a housekeeper . |
| 15 | She did not want him to hold her again . |
| 16 | She had not heard him approach her . |
| 17 | Only her resolve not to irritate him prevented her from letting the scissors stray towards his temptingly close ears , and she swallowed hard on the furious retort which jumped to her lips . |
| 18 | Kate said nothing , just allowed him to lead her out into the winter sunshine towards the waiting car . |
| 19 | But it did not move him to pity her . |
| 20 | She flushed and tried not to let him rile her . |
| 21 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 22 | She walked with him to the bus-stop , would not let him walk her back to the flat , said not to follow her ; she 'd watch , be angry . |
| 23 | She would not let him confuse her with his lies . |
| 24 | She would not let him defeat her . |
| 25 | No longer did he ask her for cuttings of her pubic hair ! |
| 26 | Oh , this could not be happening — that she loved him so , and yet could not bear him to caress her ! |
| 27 | Yet she desperately wanted him to acknowledge her , to have some impact on his contained life . |
| 28 | For two years after they married , she put up with his violent temper which once led him to throw her across the lawn and punch her , breaking bones in her hand and finger . |
| 29 | They will still allege he murdered her . ’ |
| 30 | He had not gone because his mother was always asking him to help her with things that she could have done perfectly well by herself . |