Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] her [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 2 | I told her of that woman novelist who made a character in Provence ladle out onion soup , followed by bouillabaisse for luncheon , and in summer too . |
| 3 | I do n't know bloody well like me , because I told her off one day , told her where to bloody go to . |
| 4 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 5 | I taught her for several hours every day in the library , although it was not easy to make her concentrate on anything for long , as she was clearly not used to the discipline of lessons . |
| 6 | A few months after the aggravation I started her on Kali carb. 0/1 , progressing through 0/6. with steady amelioration , increasing energy and emotional well-being . |
| 7 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 8 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 9 | I saw her with black hair and I told her it was great , but she prefers to be blonde . |
| 10 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 11 | So I took her through that holiday in greater detail . |
| 12 | I took her outside this morning and she is the typical scaredy cat she is ! |
| 13 | ‘ I took her on six years ago and she finished up managing our design workshop . |
| 14 | I took her by both hands and I started to swing her in a circle , singing as I went , shouting the words of the song over and over again . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't say anything , but I saw Bob Lamb going along the beck , so I sent her off that way , too . |
| 16 | The male started to bully the female , so I removed her to another tank — better to be safe than sorry . |
| 17 | I put her in cold water till the ambulance came , but I did n't know what else to do ! ’ |
| 18 | Actually I preferred her with white hair . ’ |
| 19 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |
| 20 | So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ? |
| 21 | You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge . |
| 22 | We met her under various guises throughout the islands : with the Bugis pirates in the Moluccas , where we cast offerings into her whirlpool ; and amongst the tribesfolk of Sumba who rely on her signal in the form of the one night each year when Sumba 's beaches briefly swarm with red sea-worm — to initiate their deadly war-sport between lance-throwing armies of mounted warriors . |
| 23 | You see in consecrated ground so they buried her in this bit of wheat land at the Muckle Water there . |
| 24 | They subjected her to verbal abuse . |
| 25 | The police probably knew everything ; it was only a matter of time now before they challenged her about that sample of nail polish . |
| 26 | They thanked her in quiet voices , told her the clothes were ‘ cool ’ , but no one said they knew Francis . |
| 27 | But that Moorish Negress was so skilful in drawing the Turkish bow , that it was held for a marvel , and it is said that they called her in Arabic Nugueymat Turya , which is to say , the Star of the Archers . |
| 28 | There 'd be a flogging or worse if they took her with stolen clothes . |
| 29 | They reminded her of last night , and the feeling of walking in the moonless night with her own arm intertwined with Miguelito 's . |
| 30 | They stood her in good stead when her father enrolled her at her next school , Riddlesworth Hall , two hours ' drive from Park House . |