Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] she [prep] [art] " 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 tried to tell her in a matter-of-fact way that when you die you leave your body behind and go to Heaven . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 7 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd dragged her into the storeroom and begged her to take me to London , saying my family would n't allow me to go without her . |
| 9 | ‘ Liz lost a winning I 'd given her on a horse . |
| 10 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 11 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 12 | , so I put her out in the end it erm it was surprising everybody knew what was going to happen they knew what I was going to do right when I come back in after swi place was empty they 'd got out that door before I 'd got her out the door but erm no it 's it 's very insulting . |
| 13 | I recall , for instance , the occasion around that time I happened to encounter her in the back corridor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 16 | When I started to touch her in a sexual way I asked her if she liked it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I managed to get her into the car and drove her back to her aunt 's in Hastings . |
| 19 | Marsh said : ‘ I do n't blame Kim for being angry — I did leave her in a bad financial situation . ’ |
| 20 | I did n't even notice that , but I did notice her across the road at Mrs and know so right she 'd been there I just did n't notice where she went , but I heard the bell ring and I could see this anorak through there and me mind thought Mrs , perhaps it 's Mrs but then when I saw this this lady well I just did n't know what to think really . |
| 21 | I killed her as surely as if I had stabbed her with a knife , shot her with a gun , squeezed her neck between my hands . |
| 22 | For a couple of years she and I had knocked around the Mediterranean , then I had sailed her across the Atlantic . |
| 23 | I had to carry her over the wall , can you imagine , to get her to my rooms . |
| 24 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 25 | See why I had to remind her about the driving license ? |
| 26 | ‘ I had to take her to the polo . |
| 27 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 28 | I 'd been told the baby was semi-posterior so I knew I had to turn her into a more comfortable position for birth . |
| 29 | I had to isolate her from the rest . ’ |
| 30 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |