Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You should just see her , you ca n't imagine , you would have to see her to know why she chose it , " and all the time , as she spoke , some more assured , sophisticated account underran her words , silently , in her own mind , an account by some other girl , some girl who could wear such garments , and laugh at them , and explain them , and not suffer — some girl so far above such things that nothing could pull her down . |
| 2 | She could see that nothing could harm her , that there was no danger , that danger in so far as it might exist was desirable , and she started to walk , slowly , up the street , looking at those who looked at her , exchanging glance for glance , shivering in the warm April air from a tremulous , hopeful , artificial apprehension . |
| 3 | I handed over my life 's savings and promised that I would give her the other nineteen and six before the year was up . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I knew that I would take her back eventually , but I wanted to torment her with indifference . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Give me the Lady Fand , that I may bear her to a fitting place . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Tell her that I do exist and that I 'll see her one day . ’ |
| 12 | I hope by then that I 'll have her , you know , that she 'll be dry . |
| 13 | Not , of course , that she is to know that , and not , of course , that I shall tell her . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I feel that I could overwhelm her with love now . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | That I could get her to do things for me that she would n't do for them . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Her relations were keen that I should meet her , perhaps because they hoped in desperation that I might be able to help her . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He felt that I should tell her on my own . |
| 26 | 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 : |
| 27 | That I was n't in love with Nicola — which was true — and that I 'd give her up . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I looked for the knitted garments that I used to help her with but they must have all been sold . |
| 30 | I excluded the whole of Scotland because she would have been a little too near home — even in Glasgow there was just the chance that someone might find her or she might bump into someone from home . ’ |