Example sentences of "[vb past] her how [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dead before I knew it was not my anger killed her , dead before I told her how much I loved her . |
| 2 | I told her how much I disliked Katherine Mansfield as a personality , and she faintly rebuked me : ‘ What I feel is that we should be so grateful to her . ’ |
| 3 | He went to her , and told her how much he loved her , and that she was not to heed him ; it was the headaches that made him distracted ; that day he had been almost blind ; Mr Lamprey had suggested spectacles , and perhaps now he could afford them . |
| 4 | He told her how much he had missed her while he was away skiing and then asked her simply to marry him . |
| 5 | Sitting with Alice , drinking coffee , they told her how hundreds had marched in London against the polluting of a certain stretch of shore . |
| 6 | So he told her how marvellous it was , and how misunderstood this wretched Frenchman was , and she bought it . |
| 7 | After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc . |
| 8 | She dreaded the inspector coming because he always asked a lot of questions , and told her how lucky she was that she would soon be able to go to a big place in London where there were lots of other girls and boys . |
| 9 | She told her how beautiful they were , how there had never been such a blue . |
| 10 | Helen , who had been so calm during the night , was now cold and shaking with delayed shock , and Anne told her how glad she had been of her company . |
| 11 | The year the shop opened she hired a new dress designer , Jacqui Smale , fresh from the Royal College of Art , and told her how sensible she thought it was to wear uniform because this removed the agonies of planning what to wear each day as well as the decisions about accessories to go with the clothes . |
| 12 | It surprised her how little public knowledge of Jonathan 's behaviour affected her . |
| 13 | When I asked her how easy or difficult she had found the exercise , Sylvia told me that she had been quite surprised at how simple it had been . |
| 14 | I asked her how much writing she had lately done , and she laughed , and said she was learning so much , so very much , and when it was all learned she should have new matter to write about and many new things to say . |
| 15 | When Sal stopped sobbing , I asked her how much she remembered about the accident . |
| 16 | Well I asked her how much you owed and she said thirty one ninety five |
| 17 | No sooner had I equipped Gillian and her Squire with a cup of Formosa Oolong than I asked her how old she was , what she did , and whether her parents were still alive . |
| 18 | A nagging little voice reminded her how reticent her father had been about his past , always changing the subject abruptly so that she never learnt a thing about him . |
| 19 | It reminded her how little she really knew about him — about his character — his ambitions , and the lengths he might go to achieve them . |
| 20 | I reminded her how fragile it was . |
| 21 | After the first melting mouthful reminded her how hungry she was , it was much easier to push disturbing visions and hurt-filled memories to one side and devote her attention to the food . |
| 22 | It struck her how much of her life had been spent dissembling . |
| 23 | It struck her how tatty many of the buildings appeared now the lack of sun had robbed them of their charm . |