Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 2 | So er there was this poor girl sitting on this seat and I 'd seen her there and so , there was a nice lady sat they said er they took the Redditch train off the thing and put this Shrewsbury on . |
| 3 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 4 | And I had killed her . |
| 5 | Something happened and she just said it , then she hit me and I had to hit her back . |
| 6 | She was only little then and I had to hold her up so she could reach . |
| 7 | She told me it added up to thousands and I had to pay her back by giving her my salary for the next ten years . |
| 8 | Beryl was poorly this morning and I had to run her to the doctors . |
| 9 | The director of The Long Roads , Tristram Powell , agrees that less equalled more in that performance : ‘ I was aware that she had played all these glamorous parts , and I had to get her to trust me and do much less than she was used to . |
| 10 | I mean , er erm and I went to see her in Park Hospital and she was very frustrat very frustrated because she could n't speak . |
| 11 | One Sunday , when my father and I went to visit her , we found her condition had worsened . |
| 12 | She took no notice , and I began to hate her , not because I was having to apologize — she looked so old and sad that I was genuinely sorry — but because she would n't listen and it was such a-terrible physical struggle for me to talk ; my mouth seemed to be full of some sickly , sticky stuff , like chewing-gum . |
| 13 | I blew up and I tried to tell her , no you 're wrong . |
| 14 | I knew Ellen hated the cold , and I tried to warn her of the conditions we might expect in those latitudes . |
| 15 | In parting we arranged to meet again , next time in London , and I promised to take her to dinner at her favourite restaurant , the Trocadero on Shaftesbury Avenue , just a stone 's throw from Piccadilly Circus . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 18 | Anyway , I explained to Auntie , I had joined the army , and was being sent to London ; and I wanted to see her , and get her blessings . |
| 19 | And I wanted to see her . |
| 20 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 21 | The doc told me I could go but I would n't come back , but I managed to persuade her . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's off today , sir , but I managed to get her at her flat . |
| 23 | Marius dragged me back to camp and afterwards I told the other legionnaires how she had wanted to sleep with me , but I had turned her down . |
| 24 | I went to Helen and told her that something heavy was happening , I was n't sure what it was , but I had to leave her now . |
| 25 | She had made a pass at me , of course , but I had left her and her dead eyes in her big , empty house . |
| 26 | But I had known her since we were children . |
| 27 | But I had underestimated her . |
| 28 | I said I did n't but I 'd passed her coming in to the party . ’ |
| 29 | Dad returned to the house but I remained to watch her , seated now erect and looking proud , whip in one hand and reins in the other , for all the world the expert driver as she prepared to move off . |
| 30 | But I refused to leave her . |