Example sentences of "i [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 . |