Example sentences of "[adj] [that] she [vb mod] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , although she never actually put it into words she had made it perfectly clear that she would put him out of business if he did n't agree to her terms . |
| 2 | She had refused to get up , now held his legs in a hug , and her face against his thighs , turning now one cheek then the other into the material of his trousers , just below his crotch , and he was dismayed that she might smell him , that his buttoned flies , however spick — and they were freshly laundered — might carry some old aroma all the same , for he knew how bodies animate and inform even the most lifeless paraphernalia , how Maria Filippa marked her hairbrush , her pillow , her section of the wardrobe , as surely with her scent as a roe leaves spoor for a hunting dog in a forest . |
| 3 | He had said he was a very good friend of Danny , Carrie 's brother , and it was likely that she would see him sometime in the future . |
| 4 | He did not know of the English habit of using such affectionate epithets rather haphazardly , and he was impressed that she should consider him her dear . |
| 5 | It seemed to her important that she should meet him standing . |
| 6 | She slipped under the bedclothes and switched on the reading lamp , adamant that she would shove him to the furthest corner of her mind , but the minute she opened her book her brain started working again , throwing up images of him , the way he smiled , that confident knowing look in his eyes when he addressed her . |
| 7 | And she could not , thought Dalgliesh , be as naive as that ; he was surprised that she could expect him to believe that she was . |
| 8 | Wished he had n't been so damn scared that she 'd turn him down . |