Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 2 | I knew Ellen hated the cold , and I tried to warn her of the conditions we might expect in those latitudes . |
| 3 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 4 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
| 5 | I recall , for instance , the occasion around that time I happened to encounter her in the back corridor . |
| 6 | She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock . |
| 7 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 8 | I managed to get her into the car and drove her back to her aunt 's in Hastings . |
| 9 | I had to carry her over the wall , can you imagine , to get her to my rooms . |
| 10 | See why I had to remind her about the driving license ? |
| 11 | ‘ I had to take her to the polo . |
| 12 | I had to isolate her from the rest . ’ |
| 13 | Then I had to tell her about the visit — about most of it — from Sergia and her cohorts . |
| 14 | Beryl was poorly this morning and I had to run her to the doctors . |
| 15 | I wanted to drive her to the very edge of despair . |
| 16 | I wanted to ring her in the morning , she 'd sounded so unhappy when I left her . |
| 17 | If you tried to pat her on the shoulder and say ‘ There , there , ’ anything might happen . |
| 18 | And then we had to tell her in the end ! |
| 19 | She turned to glare at him and made an effort to resist as he made to propel her into the passenger seat . |
| 20 | He agreed to marry her on the understanding that he could bow out if and when something better turned up . |
| 21 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 22 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 23 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 24 | He turned to face her in the doorway . |
| 25 | As the sow came at him he allowed her to run her head into the bin then , bent double , he began to back her towards the open door . |
| 26 | And to Folly 's surprise he started to lead her towards the building . |
| 27 | He weighed up what he needed to tell her about the shapechangers and theft of the nuclear device . |
| 28 | Jealous voices reminded the Count of this again and again ; eventually he decided to put her to the test . |
| 29 | He decided to telephone her over the weekend , by which time the case could be finished and he would be able to invite her to dinner with reasonable hope that they would be uninterrupted . |
| 30 | It was raining and he decided to drop her outside the front door , sheltered as it was by the portico with two columns . |