Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 2 | Without hesitation she kicked him under the chin , the full weight of the kick throwing him flat on the floor . |
| 3 | For a moment she held him like a baby in her arms . |
| 4 | In the dawn grey with sea mist she drove him to the airport . |
| 5 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 6 | Then one day she rang him with the triumphant news that she had finished . |
| 7 | On one occasion she threw him on the floor and on another she had deliberately broken his toys . |
| 8 | But halfway through the somersault she caught him by an ankle and held him dangling upside-down like a plucked chicken in a shop-window . |
| 9 | He saved too the note she sent requesting ‘ Big choc. cake , ginger biscuits , Twiglets ’ just as he has kept the clipping she sent him from the Daily Telegraph about academic failures who become gifted and successful later in life . |
| 10 | The prosecution claim she blasted him with a shotgun because he was having an affair . |
| 11 | They parted at dawn but when he approached her later the same morning she froze him with an icy gaze and said , ‘ In the circle in which I move , sleeping with a man does not constitute an introduction . ’ |
| 12 | With a shrill yelp she nipped him in the hind leg and he shot away in alarm . |
| 13 | With some relief she deposited him with the receptionist to await emergency treatment . |
| 14 | The next time he went to church she waylaid him after the evening service , and tried to persuade him to enter the hall , where — as he had guessed — a cup of tea was about to be made . |
| 15 | He now faces the agony of receiving a letter she told him on the phone that she 'd written the day before she died . |
| 16 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |