Example sentences of "i [verb] her of [art] " 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 storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond .
3 I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret .
4 My wife had determined that I must swop my old bike for a car after I told her of an encounter with an old pupil of mine as I was toiling up the hill by the power station in Haughton Road , Darlington .
5 I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone .
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