Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] she of the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
3 | They reminded her of the cardboard kaleidoscope she had as a child , packed with coloured fragments , which she looked into for hours , turning and watching , turning and watching . |
4 | She kept clear of everybody in the house in case they reminded her of the ill person her uncle had become . |
5 | He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme . |
6 | He reminded her of the mad professor in her comics . |
7 | She wondered why he did n't step across it ; he reminded her of the white mice they had let out of the cage one day . |
8 | It reminded her of the first time she 'd seen him . |
9 | In her view the film had been ‘ quite careful ’ to show that it was an allegory and it reminded her of the British classic film Black Narcissus . |
10 | It reminded her of the old days when just a passing glance of his could reduce her to a state of burning confusion . |
11 | It reminded her of the disastrous pole-vault on the school sports-day , when Enid had cast a spell on Mildred 's pole to help her , but had inadvertently overdone the magic and Mildred had sailed through Miss Hardbroom 's study window . |