Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] [vb pp] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only she had seen him come into the shop — but she always seemed to miss him . |
| 2 | Perhaps she 'd intrigued him because she had such lovely eyes , unusually blue against the dark hair , and clear and direct like those of Sarah Morey . |
| 3 | His hand toyed mercilessly with her breasts , as if he had the right ; perhaps she had given him the right ; as if he owned her and she existed solely for his capricious use . |
| 4 | Afterwards , she thought perhaps she had touched him , but could not remember . |
| 5 | Perhaps she 's told him he 's going too fast ! |
| 6 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 7 | So she 'd missed him ! |
| 8 | How easily she had let him manipulate the transition . |
| 9 | How easily she 'd tricked him ! |
| 10 | Somehow she 'd known he 'd seek her out , or else she was simply too tired to register any kind of emotion at his intrusion into her dressing-room . |
| 11 | Somehow she had hit him when he was running at full speed and almost out of range . |
| 12 | Somehow she had ruffled him : a rare occasion indeed . |
| 13 | Those letters would be bound to point out to Gina how badly she 'd treated him , telling her to reform and to save her marriage if they were religious , or else saying that she deserved it if he got someone else . |
| 14 | His cool irony brought swift colour to her cheeks as she recalled how furiously she had condemned him for doing just that . |
| 15 | But more importantly she had buried him in her heart . |
| 16 | Or had she — again she experienced that persistent feeling niggling at the back of her mind that somewhere she 'd seen him before . |
| 17 | He was the biggest man in Polruan was Uncle Harry , a real giant of a man and once she had seen him knock a child over by mistake when all he had meant to do was cuff him playfully on the ear . |
| 18 | He had not realized how deeply she had disturbed him . |
| 19 | He 'd woken that morning , lying beside Vanessa with a hard-on she 'd wanted him to pleasure her with , and had stupidly refused her , knowing he had a liaison with Martine that afternoon . |
| 20 | He had thought that that would be the last he would hear of her , but a few days later she had sent him her first piece , and he had been so impressed by it that he had printed it and asked her to write more for him . |
| 21 | Four weeks later she had seen him in the cinema queue with another girl , and had perceived that her day was over ; in between , she had known disorientation and obsession , diagnosed her trouble , and felt exhilarated . |
| 22 | Sally-Anne had a flash of memory of him just before their abortive lovemaking , remembered how dear she had felt him , so dear that she no longer saw his scarred face , but only Dr Neil , whom she loved . |
| 23 | So probably she had spotted him . |
| 24 | He had n't been there that morning and now she had run him to earth in the café . |
| 25 | And , now she had found him , there was born in her the need to give . |
| 26 | She was also dimly aware that they had passed the point of no return — now she had allowed him inside her it seemed wrong to yell at him to stop or begin fighting him . |
| 27 | Now she 'd made him angry again . |
| 28 | He loves her so much and what 's he going through now she has told him she has a child by another man ? ’ |
| 29 | Too often she had caught him looking at her breasts . |
| 30 | She was in a mindless world where she had forgotten everything about why he was there , mindless that not half an hour ago she had thought him the most hateful of men when , abruptly , shatteringly , he suddenly stilled . |