Example sentences of "she [verb] he [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slanted him a scornful glance . |
| 2 | She flung him a savage little smile . |
| 3 | He begged her not to miss the party they were invited to on his account , so she made him a hot drink , turned on the TV and , making no bones about it , said she would be back in the morning . |
| 4 | Perhaps if she asked him a simple , straightforward question she would receive a simple , straightforward answer in return . |
| 5 | She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley . |
| 6 | Her hand came up and she caught him a stinging blow across the cheek , watching without a flicker as the mark turned first white , then red . |
| 7 | She found him a new toothbrush in its unbroken wrap , and said , ‘ It 's a pity about Sir George . |
| 8 | They met ; he found her company agreeable , she found him a new slogan . |
| 9 | They talked over a meal that was prepared especially for her , and she found him a charming and entertaining companion . |
| 10 | She cast him a scathing look . |
| 11 | She darted him a quick smile . |
| 12 | ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass . |
| 13 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 14 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 15 | She threw him a cool look as she scooped the papers from his desk . |
| 16 | She threw him a cool look . |
| 17 | She threw him a wide smile . |
| 18 | ‘ I must confess I 'm pretty sick about it all , ’ he said seriously , then when she threw him a startled glance he suddenly grinned . |
| 19 | She threw him a suspicious look . |
| 20 | She threw him a quick glance . |
| 21 | She threw him a quick glance . |
| 22 | Then she threw him a shrewd look . |
| 23 | She threw him a scathing look . |
| 24 | ‘ Look , Mr — ’ She threw him an enquiring glance . |
| 25 | She threw him an emerald glare . |
| 26 | ‘ She leads him a right dance , ’ the nans would say , during their daily exchange of news and analysis in the queue at the butcher 's , until finally she danced off for good and all and left him with his mother and his clapped-out BSA and his jars of Brylcreem and his collection of 78 records and a lifetime 's cumulation of unarticulated resentments . |
| 27 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 28 | She handed him the woebegone bouquet , the bird 's head dangling , its coxcomb a broken-stemmed blossom ; he took it , bowed his head , and pinched the child 's cheek as he showed his teeth gritted in greedy affection , the expression that says to children , ‘ Aahah ! |
| 29 | Alighting hesitantly , she cast anxious eyes around her , wondering just where her hotel was , as she paid him the exact amount on the meter , feeling strangely guilty as she refrained from adding a tip in accordance with the multi-lingual notice in the cab . |
| 30 | In this box she showed him a long thick green book , a little like an accounts book , with sombre marbled endpapers : |