Example sentences of "he [conj] she [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that evening she had told him that she came from Newcastle , that her widowed father had remarried and that she and her stepmother could n't get on . |
| 2 | Her sturdy common sense , the downright attitude to life which never ceased to surprise him , the constant loving references to a papa and a mama who sounded remarkably practical themselves , even if they had spoiled their beautiful daughter , informed him that she came from a background very unlike any that Dr Neil had ever encountered . |
| 3 | Sometime she felt so fond of him that she inclined to a belief in reincarnation , feeling that they must once have been twins : she understood him far too well for her peace of mind , and she knew why her brothers detested him ; apart from the fact that they were racists , they were baffled by his charm and his after-shave . |
| 4 | Dr Neil was not in any way surprised at McAllister 's reaction to his lovemaking ; he expected such modesty from a well brought up young girl , and her arms around his neck , her timid responses , fluttering though they were , told him that she felt for him what he felt for her , and further inflamed his own passion , while warning him to go gently . |
| 5 | ‘ They were n't like you when I was at school , ’ had been his amused reaction when she had told him that she taught in the village . |
| 6 | She had not quite the disdain of him that she put into what she said ; and perhaps he knew it as well as she did . |
| 7 | At first she told him that she wanted to be near her cousin Freddy , in the Engineers . |
| 8 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 9 | She knew only marginally more about him than she did about Bella . |
| 10 | Still gripping her arm , he pushed her ahead of him and she stumbled into a walk , unable to fight his vastly superior strength . |
| 11 | It would probably please him if she went to prison , because then she would be out of his hair , and he would be free to amuse himself to his heart 's content with his pretty , blue-eyed doll . |
| 12 | I 'm sure Anne could change him if she wanted to , but she seems to like him the way he is . |
| 13 | ‘ Because Stapleton thought that she would be very much more useful to him if she appeared to be a free woman . ’ |
| 14 | He remained as tenant , as did his sister after him until she died in the late sixties . ’ |
| 15 | He worked now with his father at the farm , going every morning as the sun came up and not getting back until it was due to set again , so she hardly saw him unless she hid from Ma when it was bedtime . |
| 16 | She had told him a tale , looking slyly at him while she played with his left hand . |
| 17 | She was losing him before she had to , with their final parting still hours away , but too soon — too soon ! |
| 18 | The boy could feel Izzie 's body brush past him as she crawled into a corner . |
| 19 | Carol waved at him as she swung along the corridor . |
| 20 | ‘ No , ’ Ruth told him as she limped towards him . |
| 21 | Her eyes blazed at him as she fled to her room . |
| 22 | His husky moan of arousal as she placed her hands on his warm chest shattered the last remnants of any uncertainty she might have felt , and her arms closed about him as she revelled in the hard pressure of Ross 's body , the slight roughness of his masculine jaw as her silk gown was torn away and he pressed his burning lips to the soft , fragrant valley between her full breasts . |
| 23 | She watched him as she stood outside Faye 's hospital room , and thought what a thoroughly manly man he was too . |
| 24 | Her terrified eyes gazed at him as she stood with his back to her , both hands braced against the door , staring at the ground between his feet . |
| 25 | She first met him when she studied at Trinity College , Dublin , as he neared the end of his degree course . |
| 26 | It 's not my place to talk about her , anyway , but she is wrapped up in her own life , and her husband 's politics — she met him when she belonged to some very radical student group at Oxford . |
| 27 | Mama did n't bother to invite him when she hauled over Lord George Sanger 's circus two weeks ago . |
| 28 | However , if the patient required an X-ray he or she had to be seen by one of the consultants or registrars . |
| 29 | The factors selected were mean OBS score at time of first assessment , whether the sufferer was singly or doubly incontinent at least once daily , whether he or she engaged in persistent wandering away from home , whether he or she lived alone , and whether he or she had no closely involved informal carer . |
| 30 | Again it would not matter if the person were a US citizen or not , so long as he or she lived in the US the classification would stand . |