Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was still sitting where I left her ; that was a good sign . |
| 2 | At 5pm that day I went along to Anouska Hempel 's very individual and attractive showroom at 2 Pond Place , Chelsea , where I saw her really lovely couture collection , for which she derived the inspiration from Eastern Europe . |
| 3 | I had no such skill , but I was learning , and it was an infinite satisfaction to keep Joanna moving , and going where I wanted her to go , with the sweep . |
| 4 | I 'd be anchored where I reckoned she 'd get a little shelter from the bay in which she lay , but with a gentle south-westerly and no sign of any break in the weather , I was n't worried about her , and took the easiest line ashore . |
| 5 | I kept my eyes open over the next few days and although I saw her sitting in the window she never appeared outside . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't believe it , ’ I said , although I knew she had boyfriends . |
| 7 | I was the prime suspect this time because of the Golden Syrup job , and although I knew she did n't have any proof , nothing I said made any difference . |
| 8 | She 's well known in diplomatic circles , and she 's quite right in all she said at dinner , and although I contradicted her , there are strange rumours of war going around . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She would n't take a groom with her although I warned her that the fog might come down later . " |
| 11 | Again , although I visited her regularly , taking little presents ; remembered her birthday and saw to it that her sons did the same ; looked after her once when she was ill ; and respected my husband 's love for her , I did not take much notice of her suggestions : ‘ My mother seems to think … |
| 12 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 13 | It was n't until she was really ill that I realised she was mine and I loved her more than anything . |
| 14 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
| 15 | My dear mother 's statement years ago that I deprived her of her fur coat and that I was n't much to look at — she once actually pronounced me ugly — bit deep . |
| 16 | When she first came she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms , but she settled down to a very moderate appetite , so the worming tablet the vet . |
| 17 | er , it got that bad that I thought she was taking the piss out of me . |
| 18 | I felt then that I understood her . |
| 19 | I said that I understood she came from the Continent , and she told me that she was born in Denmark . |
| 20 | But later , finding myself sharing a sofa with her at a friend 's dinner-party , I mentioned the film and that I understood she had approved of it . |
| 21 | Peter Noonan has been patiently waiting in the wings for six years , and finally , whether it was seeing Terry so happy , realising that she was n't getting any younger , or the fact that I told her I was thinking of getting married , sh — ’ |
| 22 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 23 | Inside the jacket that I lent her , she shivers . |
| 24 | ‘ T'was on the isle of Capri that I met her … ’ |
| 25 | It was in May that I met her , on a return visit to Cley . |
| 26 | Not that I blamed her . |
| 27 | I wondered what would happen if I should say that I wished she had n't . |
| 28 | I 'd had visions of various Uulaan delights that I hoped she might join me in , above all the free-fall Orgitunnel , among whose heaving tangle of bodies in simulated zerograv I 've had many memorable experience . |
| 29 | ‘ A girlfriend made me a wonderful big , bright red jumper which I liked so much that I asked her to knit me another . |
| 30 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |