Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Mrs Smith left us alone and I stripped off in front of my friend although I made her turn away when I came to my combs . |
| 2 | I told her at once that I knew her secret , and made her promise not to send or receive any more letters . |
| 3 | And she thought , a little aggrieved : I do think Clelia might have told me , how could she assume that I knew her mother 's maiden name ? |
| 4 | But she avoided my lips , so that I brushed her cheek , and as I tried to find her mouth she said , ‘ No , Kit . |
| 5 | I looked around and I hit her such a bloody fourpenny one that I knocked her flying . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish that I had her guts , ’ I thought . |
| 7 | And the idea that I resisted her desire to vamoose from my apartment , that I was unmoved when she burst into tears — how could I , an aficionado of opera , fail to respond to lachrymosity ? — is a ridiculous exaggeration . |
| 8 | If we also assume that my neighbour assumed that I knew these facts about the world , and that I interpreted her words according to the co-operative principle , then we can also see why the way she actually phrased her request is not only true and relevant , but also brief and clear . |
| 9 | That I did in fact think this way , and that her assumptions about my assumptions were in fact correct , is borne out by the fact that I interpreted her words quickly , and that she seemed perfectly satisfied with my interpretation . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , if it 's sexual she has less discrimination than I gave her credit for . ’ |
| 11 | This was all my fault for underestimating the route and our stamina , so I took her sack and helped her stagger down the snowfield and moraines to the path . |
| 12 | The Swedish diplomat 's wife had to visit American tourist places instead of English ones so I had her saying : ‘ We are going to ze Rockingfellow Centre and ve are seeing Saks on 5th Avenue . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Once I heard her start singing the songs I knew it had to be her , ’ he says . |
| 14 | I wondered — and I judged her age at about thirty . |
| 15 | My history teacher , who was a liberal , joked about such attitudes and I followed her cue . |
| 16 | ‘ She spent Christmas with me and my wife Pam and I took her dog for a walk . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But when I married Lady Beatrice , she took my name and I took her house . |
| 18 | The second time I tried to come off was when I went to stay with me sister and I took her DFs and just stayed in , y'know . |
| 19 | And I thought her clothes were white . |
| 20 | And I brought her friend Ranald along too , to — er — escort her . ’ |
| 21 | And I craved her approval . |
| 22 | Always , though , whether immediately or eventually , she would acquiesce , and I resented her acquiescence , not only because of its consequences for myself , but because I did n't understand why she , an adult , would not or could not stand up to him . |
| 23 | She mumbled something while Flora supported her and I wiped her face with the warm , fizzy water . |
| 24 | Nobbs wrote Reggie Perrin because ‘ he was from the world I knew , we were from Kent , my father got the 8.16 to Cannon Street every day , ’ but he wrote Henry Pratt because ‘ it was the early '80s , Thatcher had taken over and I knew her politics would create a more divided nation . |
| 25 | While I contemplated her , she continued to look about with uneasy glances like a trapped animal , and I saw her breasts move with her breathing . |
| 26 | No and I saw her type a letter and sign it as clear as anything . |
| 27 | I nodded , and she closed her eyes and I saw her shoulders slump a little . |
| 28 | She 's dead and I caused her death . ’ |
| 29 | And I ate her flesh , nearly sick on every rich mouthful , stuffing myself full after years of soup , gnawed carrots and turnips . |
| 30 | ( Even Mrs Abercrombie , once when Amy was out and I changed her sheets , cried like a baby from shame . ) |