Example sentences of "[conj] i [modal v] [verb] her " in BNC.

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1 I do n't suppose you 've any idea where I could find her ? ’
2 Have you any idea where I can find her ? ’
3 Or I 'll kill her and every one of those remedials . ’
4 John Davies screamed at police : ‘ Get back or I will cut her , ’ when he grabbed hold of terrified telephonist Alma Rodham , 50 .
5 I handed over my life 's savings and promised that I would give her the other nineteen and six before the year was up .
6 I phoned the kennel owner to inform her that British Rail insisted the dog wear a muzzle and that I would pay her back if she 'd buy one .
7 I knew that I would take her back eventually , but I wanted to torment her with indifference .
8 I had promised him that I would look her up , convey his admiring regards , and perhaps even bring him back a signed photograph of Miss Dragonette .
9 It may surprise readers but , since I wrote about her recently , Barbara and I have become good friends , so I rang her up to tell her that I would join her for a good gloat .
10 When she touches me , I shall be hers for all time , and when she touches me , I shall be so hungry for her , that I may hurt her .
11 Give me the Lady Fand , that I may bear her to a fitting place . ’
12 ‘ I 'll make sure that I 'll bring her back in one piece , ’ André was saying , but Piers had turned away and gave no indication of having heard what was being said to him .
13 ‘ Tell her that I do exist and that I 'll see her one day . ’
14 I hope by then that I 'll have her , you know , that she 'll be dry .
15 Not , of course , that she is to know that , and not , of course , that I shall tell her .
16 Punch , will you ride to Bishopstow House forthwith and leave a message to the effect that Miss Abbott is here with me and that I will return her within the hour . ’
17 I find Dr. Proudie and some of the characters such as Mr. Harding and Eleanor Bold rather pathetic and not worthy of sympathy — I do not know whether these are the sentiments Trollope hoped to arouse , but though I obviously dislike Mrs. Proudie as we are supposed to , I find that I can admire her and sympathise with her for having the bad luck to be surrounded by such people .
18 ‘ She 's got no one of her own to turn to in this country , but the notion that I can help her to clear Rick is so fantastic it is n't true .
19 Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down .
20 I feel that I could overwhelm her with love now .
21 It was one of the reasons why I was anxious to learn English at school : so that I could tell her in her own language how grateful I would always be . ’
22 That I could get her to do things for me that she would n't do for them .
23 My next-door neighbour agreed to take her , but I promised I 'd do my best to get back in time so that I could take her myself . ’
24 She was elderly and although she went to church on a Sunday , I did n't feel that I could trouble her with my religious affairs .
25 Her relations were keen that I should meet her , perhaps because they hoped in desperation that I might be able to help her .
26 I insisted that I should pay her a rent of five shillings a week and also asked her , somewhat tentatively , if she felt able to come and have tea with my mother in Romford .
27 He felt that I should tell her on my own .
28 When Thomas Turner , Sussex village shopkeeper turned thirty , confides his deep hurt at ‘ the seeming distant behaviour with which my mother treated me today , seeming so mistrustful that I should cheat her ’ , he takes us right to the heart of the complex mixture of love and pain which then as now underlies the relationship between adult children and the older generation :
29 That I was n't in love with Nicola — which was true — and that I 'd give her up . ’
30 I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high .
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