Example sentences of "i [vb past] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I told her about the hops . |
| 32 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 33 | She asked me about Mr Forster on the cruise and I told her about the salt . |
| 34 | I told her about the date at the pictures with the two boys and about the disaster with the bleach . |
| 35 | I told her about the meeting . |
| 36 | ‘ I told her about the suffering of battered women and of the desperate need to make sure they have somewhere to run , ’ said Mrs Horley . |
| 37 | I told her about the ride home with Joey Bonanza . |
| 38 | As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew . |
| 39 | And I told her about the timeslips , and how I had found myself back in her time . |
| 40 | at er , I , I do n't remember anything , anything at all , but she said , I told her about the baby , she did n't know about that |
| 41 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 45 | I identified her at the mortuary not an hour since . ’ |
| 46 | I directed her to the Glen Mist . |
| 47 | I showed her into the parlour . |
| 48 | I paid her for the call , and stayed chatting for a while , answering her queries about the cottage and then telling her of my brother 's expected arrival , and the possibility that he might telephone with a message . |
| 49 | When I confronted her with the chapter and verse of her part in arranging for tip the press off about her visit to Mrs Bartholomew , she was adamant in her denials . |
| 50 | The clock on the mantelpiece chimed the half-hour , seven thirty , as I walked her to the door . |
| 51 | So I kissed her on the cheek . |
| 52 | I kissed her on the cheek . |
| 53 | And I was only doing up here but er , that 's good enough , sort of thing I kissed her on the lips a couple |
| 54 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 55 | ‘ I killed her in the field because I believed she was the devil . ’ |
| 56 | As we left I thanked her for the ‘ nice tea ’ and off we went . |
| 57 | I thanked her for the dance and Werewolf bowed deeply to her ‘ girlfriend ’ ( Oxnard , California ) , which made her day , as they say in those parts . |
| 58 | I beckoned her to the kitchen . |
| 59 | I followed her to the Georgian wing where the rooms were more human size . |
| 60 | I followed her down the lane on the other side of the hedge . |