Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] her " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps the time spent away from him would help her regain some control over the wild emotions roiling inside her .
2 The young Beatrice Webb was convinced of the importance of family life for women and during the 1880s desperately desired an intimate relationship with the leading politician , Joseph Chamberlain , yet she knew that to marry him would cut her off for ever from the purposeful life of work that she also wanted .
3 Perhaps he ought to take her home before he embarrassed both of them .
4 Any error on her part , however small , and he may remind her that he can go back to Bangladesh and marry again .
5 He may beat her — ’
6 Any gynaecological illness , even a Caesarian operation , and he may regard her as unfit for sex and therefore useless : and he will go back to Bangladesh and marry again .
7 He should tell her .
8 Maybe he should tell her to see a doctor .
9 He hesitated , wondered if he should tell her .
10 Entering the bedroom , he wondered how much he should tell her — but there was no need for that .
11 He wondered if he should tell her how he hankered for nothing outside their life , of how his cup was full enough .
12 It was untenable that he should blame her for something that was not her fault .
13 But cold reality was but a split second away , and Leith went swiftly from dream world to fury that he should involve her in this sham .
14 Oh well , at least he should give her something .
15 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 ?
16 She choked out Rosalba 's message , that he should meet her there , in the same place , tomorrow , that he should come , as if to light a candle , and she would be there , doing the same thing , early , before the morning Mass .
17 Zen felt he should cover her up .
18 Please ! ’ she begged , all pride gone and only the shadow left , the thought of what it would be like if it swallowed her up and he should leave her wrenching the words from between her lips .
19 Gillian would have told , perhaps he should let her know , she would pass it on .
20 Perhaps he should persuade her to see a doctor .
21 It was also understandable that he should hate her for what he thought she was doing , or , rather , helping Garry do .
22 And a prodigy that he should receive her there alone .
23 He rushed towards her so violently that Miss Fogerty put out her hands to grasp his shoulders before he should butt her to the ground .
24 You know , John , I do n't think — and I never have thought — that it 's dramatically convincing that he should , that he should fuck her too , John . "
25 A suggestion that he should take her out to lunch , instead , did n't , surprisingly , fall flat .
26 He assumed an expression of profound gravity before saying the most pressing question was where he should take her for supper .
27 At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals .
28 He thought that he should touch her , offer her comfort .
29 Maybe when he had gone — his was a powerful enough presence out here ; she did n't care to think what effect the restricting confines of the cabin might have if he should follow her .
30 ‘ It 's nothing , ’ said Owen , wondering whether he should follow her .
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