Example sentences of "i [that] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose one would call him a hypochondriac , because Dorothy had once told me that her earliest memory was of her father standing in front of the looking-glass saying , ‘ I am a dying man ’ ; her mother 's face had that bearing-up look one sees on the faces of those suffering with their feet . |
| 2 | She told me that her fiancé had been killed in the war . |
| 3 | Sheila , who had been ringing for over 20 years , told me that her father and grandfather had both been ringers . |
| 4 | John was always prepared to take suggestions from his chosen dancers and also from Peggy van Praagh , who told me that her function was most often to suggest that he was attempting too much and ought to take something out . |
| 5 | Mollie ca n't believe her new shape and tells me that her colleagues ca n't get over the transformation either . |
| 6 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 7 | However , Maxine informed me that her mother had always described how she had screamed when being bathed as a tiny baby , so she doubted whether we would be able to find a specific incident which could have caused the onset of the phobia . |
| 8 | She broke down when she told me that her little boy ( now six years old ) had asked every year to be taken to see Father Christmas in a nearby store , and every year she had had to disappoint him . |
| 9 | She told me that her parents had been kind and loving and that , when her two younger brothers were born after the war , she had got on with them quite well apart from the normal childish disagreements . |
| 10 | She told me that her other maid went mad in the spring . |
| 11 | The Princess of Wales once told me that her husband had been watching the Miss World contest , which quite surprised me . |
| 12 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 13 | Some time after this Mrs Meehan wrote to me that her husband was innocent , and asked for assistance in having his case reviewed . |
| 14 | There was a girl in charge of the place , a child of perhaps twelve , who told me that her name was Morag , and that her auntie had stepped out on a visit , but had said the young lady from Camus na Dobhrain might be there to use the telephone , and please to go through . |
| 15 | She writes to tell me that her father has found a house that will be suitable for us . |
| 16 | Among friends I met here were our hosts $insert names$ who told me that her husband was making a steady recovery from his recent illness . |
| 17 | ( It was at this time , I think , that she told me that her own mother , means-tested in the late twenties , had won the sympathy of the relieving officer , who ignored the presence of the saleable piano because she kept a clean house , with a cloth on the table . ) |
| 18 | One survivor told me that her apprenticeship lasted about four years and that that was normal at the time ( she started work in 1909 at 15 after an unsuccessful start in dressmaking ) . |
| 19 | One of the survivors told me that her mother " never worked " , but it later emerged that she did go out to clean offices . |
| 20 | Years later , his sister-in-law Theresa told me that her husband , Henry Ware Eliot , had written to some department of the British government , presumably the Home Office , requesting them to give Eliot some sort of protection at this critical moment . |
| 21 | She tells me that her son has been influenced by some flighty little English madam to renege on his own responsibilities in order to give her a conducted tour of Copenhagen . ’ |
| 22 | Would she tell me that her cousin is no thief ? ’ |
| 23 | One of them is a teacher of deaf children at St Mary 's and she loved the old schoolroom at the museum and told me that her class were doing a project on Northern Ireland and she must bring them here to see it all . |
| 24 | Daphne treated them all with the same disdain , confiding in me that her one true love was still serving on the Western Front — not that she once mentioned his name in my presence . |