Example sentences of "she [conj] [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took great care not to touch her or allow his grubby clothes to come into contact with her beautiful skirt and creamy-white blouse . |
| 2 | At other times — especially in the beginning — he had succeeded in arousing a desire in her that matched his own , and that had been almost as frightening . |
| 3 | Gradually , she relaxed sufficiently for Savognia to feel able to leave her and join his other guests . |
| 4 | What could she say to him except that she felt her life — their life together — slipping away ; that whether she survived or slid wearily from her broken body , there was no longer any prospect of happiness for them ; that he should forget her and make his own world without her ? |
| 5 | ‘ I say , is n't the weather fine , ’ he said , leaning over her and pushing his well-scrubbed face close to hers . |
| 6 | Safer to close his eyes and his mind to her and give his entire concentration to the matter in hand ; a resolution to which he firmly held , even when , after a tumultuous welcome at Brighouse — the nearest railway station to Frizingley — he was escorted , with an appropriate accompaniment of banners and Chartist hymns , to a lodging-house at the top of St Jude 's street where the landlady , Mrs Sairellen Thackray , had offered to accommodate him free of charge . |
| 7 | Tony was right behind her and bent his blond head to kiss her smiling mouth . |