Example sentences of "she [vb past] he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she hugged him tight , tight , as she had not done since he was much younger and liked to squeeze her back until she protested that she could n't breathe . |
| 2 | Julia tried to smile as she said goodbye to Joe but she hugged him fiercely . |
| 3 | She hugged him roughly . |
| 4 | She met him again by chance on a train , after he had been lecturing at Bromley , and found him strangely excited , laughing like a manic-depressive and unable to sit still in the carriage . |
| 5 | Was there a chance that those painful feelings could surface once more if she met him again ? |
| 6 | One thing was sure : when she met him again it would be Alain who would feel uncomfortable because there was no forgiving an action like that . |
| 7 | Where she met where she met him then ? |
| 8 | It occurred to her that the way she was holding Peach was the way a woman holds a baby and she lowered him gently into her lap . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , please stop , ’ she requested him huskily . |
| 10 | She led him round and past the greenhouse . |
| 11 | She led him stealthily up the path Rodomonte had taken to the summit . |
| 12 | Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own . |
| 13 | She led him straight into an old-fashioned kitchen where a coal range gave out a dull red glow . |
| 14 | She led him upstairs to a homely-looking sitting-room , and opened the drinks cupboard . |
| 15 | She led him over to the Fashion desk where Felicity was sitting , a vision of crystalline beauty and sparkling efficiency . |
| 16 | After exchanging a few words with him , she led him off into a corner . |
| 17 | With Endill 's help , she led him back to the sick bay . |
| 18 | She led him back to school kindly . |
| 19 | Taking his hand , she led him back inside . |
| 20 | I remember Otto mentioning that she entertained him there with Jean-Claude , and only later moved out into a room over the Café du Coin , to be nearer her ‘ young man ’ . |
| 21 | She made him up a bed on the high white divan in her living-room — not a heap of sleeping-bags and blankets but a real bed , with laundered sheets and pillows in emerald green cotton cases . |
| 22 | Yeah , I think she made him very happy . |
| 23 | All contemporary accounts of Constanze 's character , except those originating from Leopold and Nannerl Mozart ( neither of whom ever really accepted her ) , together with the evidence of Mozart 's own letters to her , confirm that she made him as good a wife as he could have wished . |
| 24 | But she made him less formidable . |
| 25 | She simply expected it of him , she made him always say what he thought , she argued points , she worried constantly about whether she was , whether they both were , working hard enough . |
| 26 | He tried to strangle her , but she fought him off . ’ |
| 27 | Preston stumbled out of bed and tried to give her a hug , but she fought him off as if it was an attack . |
| 28 | Laughing , she fought him off till he 'd got the dress off her by brute force , and wooed her consent with practised skill . |
| 29 | She fought him off and he fled . |
| 30 | Police are hunting a sex attacker who left a young woman scratched and bleeding after she fought him off . |