Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] her [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park .
2 She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’
3 I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her .
4 ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’
5 I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs .
6 I helped her through a bad time , you see .
7 I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all .
8 I drew her into a shadowy window embrasure .
9 In an effort to find an ally in helping her , I mentioned her to the local priest .
10 I told her about the tragic young man .
11 I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks .
12 I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume .
13 I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret .
14 When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it .
15 Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says .
16 I screwed her in a hot-air balloon .
17 I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child .
18 I followed her to the Georgian wing where the rooms were more human size .
19 This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’
20 In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work .
21 I saw her through an open doorway .
22 I took her to a little friend 's birthday party yesterday — life when you 're almost two has to go on as near to normal as we can make it .
23 No , no , I said to Richard is , is , Debbie not feeling well enough to come here , no I took her for a little ride round the .
24 When I put her in a small paddock while I muck out , she licks the soil for about ten minutes .
25 When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished .
26 nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards .
27 Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him .
28 A longer length of rope was circled around her shoulders and under the table , then over her gorgeous breasts and downwards until her rib cage was completely covered in coiled rope , which fastened her to the hard wooden table .
29 Nobody helped her beyond the poor sad girl at the library to whom she was kind and who now bounded about the romantic fiction section for her , feverishly pulling down titles she thought Kitty would like .
30 ‘ I think I 'm going to vomit , ’ she muttered to no one in particular , and sat down with a plop on a new imitation Italian chair , which received her with a reedy groan .
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