Example sentences of "she [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 She failed him as a great ‘ silver ’ power , as a naval power at Trafalgar , and by 1807 her domestic polities were so confused by court intrigue that she appeared scarcely a reliable political ally .
2 She flung him into the Grand Canal .
3 A senior detective said : ‘ The married woman said she met him on a plane .
4 ‘ She was a married woman , who said she met him on a plane , ’ a senior detective told TODAY .
5 She met him on a forest track , ran him down and did her best to kill him .
6 Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire .
7 At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school .
8 She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown .
9 Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room .
10 She seated him before the blaze of the bright fire ; she brought him , unasked , a glass of the Armagnac he preferred .
11 When she attacked him with a 12-inch butcher 's knife , he punched her , and that brought that troubled relationship to a troubled end .
12 She led him down the side passage and pointed to a shelf .
13 She led him to the bedroom , and spreadeagled him on the bed before tying his wrists to the iron headrest .
14 She led him to the dismal apartment rented to her by Louis .
15 Taking his hand , she led him to the bed and lay down .
16 Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door .
17 Back at the hotel , instead of heading for the bedroom , she led him to the bar , where they took a couple of glasses of malt and fell to chatting with some locals who 'd ‘ just dropped by to have a nightcap ’ despite the fact it was gone midnight and they all had work to go to in the morning .
18 She led him into a room off the hall , a room which ran the length of the house with a window at each 0d .
19 She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared .
20 She led him into the sitting room .
21 She led him into the semicircular hall with its high vaulted ceiling from which a chandelier threw its bright light over the pale lemon and white walls .
22 She led him into the kitchen where the fire burnt cheerfully in the grate .
23 Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past .
24 He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan .
25 She led him through the main tannery to where a pile of raw sheep skins lay , and still with her light eyes on him lay down .
26 For a moment animosity was swept away by mutual interest and , as she led him towards the recovery cage , she felt a pang of regret that their relationship could not be friendly .
27 Instead of saying so , she pecked him on the cheek .
28 He caught them and tried to hold her still but she fought him like a spitting cat .
29 Why could n't she treat him with the same cool indifference as he showed her ?
30 Fergus felt a surge of real anger now , because how dare she treat him as an inferior , how dare she speak to him as if he was no more than one of her serfs , a possession , a pawn , a thing .
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