Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little further up the street , he realised who she was . |
| 2 | It took a moment or two before he registered who she was , then he said heavily , ‘ Good of you to look in like this , Ruth . |
| 3 | He was treating her as if he knew her , as if he cared what she thought , and she could n't even get her face under control . |
| 4 | Something seemed to open or to expand in her brain , releasing a cold voice which she had never heard there before , telling her that if he cheated her she might just as well kill him . |
| 5 | Then he asked what she was doing . |
| 6 | He listened , and his heart ached because he knew if he failed her she would hold it against him for ever . |
| 7 | With any luck he would have disappeared by now , caught up in discussions with prospective clients , and by the time he found her she would be too involved in other matters to be cornered . |
| 8 | He was inconsolable when he found what she 'd done . |
| 9 | He wanted to know what she thought about everything , because as he told her he found everything she had to say so interesting . |
| 10 | In fact he embodied everything she disliked in a man — arrogance , a physical appearance which turned female heads engendering conceit , authoritarianism and a complete disregard for the feelings of others . |
| 11 | She began to moan as he caressed her trembling body , and when he entered her she cried aloud as though in great pain . |
| 12 | When he lifted her she could hear her own panic-stricken murmurings and he pulled her head against him , muffling the wild little sounds against the strength of his neck . |
| 13 | He twisted everything she said and turned to nothing what she felt . |
| 14 | He muttered something she did n't catch , then she felt the slight bump as the boat drew alongside the steps of Ca' del Leone . |
| 15 | He told her she had a lovely body and when she went to bed with him , she said ( he 'd find out about it anyway and drop her ) : |
| 16 | If he told her she might go straight back and he would n't be home for hours . |
| 17 | One day , when Sam found her weeping in a corner nursing a black eye , he told her she had got to stop . |
| 18 | When she told Hawk of her dream , he told her she had reached the First Level . |
| 19 | Red-eyed and hollow inside , she was appalled when he told her she had reached the Third Level . |
| 20 | One day she was at Serenity and she met a boy from the Holy Sepulchre of the Expanded Neurosphere , and he told her she did n't have to be an imaginary princess any more . |
| 21 | Often he told her she ought to wear warmer clothing . |
| 22 | He told her she was a fool , and wished her luck — then he gave her a gold sovereign and a bottle of champagne as a farewell present . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , and he told her she should have the amnio in the next week if she 's going to have it at all . |
| 24 | He told her she was beautiful . |
| 25 | Armed with a knife he told her she was going to die and after ordering her to undress he sexually abused and raped her . |
| 26 | Whenever worried friends asked after his mum , he told them she was out . |
| 27 | He told me she 'd lost an ear , carbonized the top of her skull and badly damaged the right side of her face . |
| 28 | And flamboyant tycoon Donald Trump was so besotted with the Italian aristocrat he told everyone she was his girlfriend . |
| 29 | He told himself she understood him because , like him , she was knackermeat , really — but she had come lucky . |
| 30 | He told himself she was n't coming — that there was a perfectly good reason for her absence . |