Example sentences of "[conj] he could [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right now I was too busy working on where he could take her for a honeymoon . |
| 2 | although he could taste her still . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the discovery that he could make her respond to even his lightest caress was enough to make the ride into Winchester a damned uncomfortable one . |
| 4 | She was amazed to realise now just how detailed her dream of him had been and annoyed that he could make her feel so uncomfortable by his veiled allusion to last night . |
| 5 | What on earth was it about him that he could make her come unglued with just a single look ? |
| 6 | That he could affect her this way was deeply shocking . |
| 7 | He spun round on the stool so that he could face her . |
| 8 | Ace had sat up and discarded the ice-pack so that he could face her . |
| 9 | By then it was too late to try and change her policy , for the overseer seemed to have taken a real dislike to her , watching for any slip she made , so that he could punish her for being high and mighty as he called it . |
| 10 | His inability to rid himself of the woman is a recurrent theme , even though a psychoanalytic institute in the US ( where for some reason another analyst has written a book which presents the patient as a great therapeutic success ) actually sent him money regularly so that he could pay her off when she got too demanding . |
| 11 | He has a son who is a booby and who was loafing around his father 's yards waiting only for this young lady to come of age so that he could marry her . |
| 12 | In the depths of her soul she knew it , knew that he could hurt her , badly . |
| 13 | He reached out and turned the lamp so that it shone onto her face , seating himself on the edge of the desk so that he could study her . |
| 14 | Back in the projection room , she insisted on the list of names before bending over the balcony , so that he could shag her whilst they both watched the film . |
| 15 | She was so engrossed in her thoughts that Dr Kent had to speak to her twice before she heard his request to help him move Bobbie Cole so that he could examine her . |
| 16 | That he could overpower her ? |
| 17 | It occurred to her that he could tip her out of the window without any effort at all , and she shrank back . |
| 18 | She was up in arms , riled by his easy assurance , his certainty that he could manipulate her like some puppet . |
| 19 | But he wanted to keep her with him , to help her with her reading and studying , so that he could present her proudly as a lady to his parents . |
| 20 | But he was mistaken if he thought that he could upset her . |
| 21 | This has led to the view that Bismarck 's real aim was to stifle Austro-Russian conflict by attaching Austria-Hungary to Germany , so that he could hold her back and prevent the two autocracies from mutual destruction . |
| 22 | ‘ Sounds like it , ’ she mumbled , realising that he could hold her in his arms , yet be unaware of her presence because his mind was full of the stream and the bridge . |
| 23 | And she acknowledged that part of her longing to be bustling about was to try and snap him out of his trance so that he could tell her where her sister was . |
| 24 | They brought him out so that he could denounce her in person . |
| 25 | Sliding from his lap , she stepped back so that he could view her . |
| 26 | She senses what he 's after : she ca n't exactly explain it , but she knows that he could take her away . |
| 27 | For the next hour Fabia was alternately angry that he could take her to such heights only to call a halt when she responded too readily , and despair that he had made such a nonsense of her that she had n't known where the dickens she was . |
| 28 | After she had told him , they had n't gone to the pictures for a month , so that he could see her home . |
| 29 | That he could find her whenever he chose … |
| 30 | ‘ Good heavens , ’ she flew , feeling outraged that he could suspect her of such a thing , ‘ I would n't dream of asking him questions about you ! ’ |