Example sentences of "i [verb] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cautiously , I asked her about this . |
| 2 | Children of both sexes went to Sunday School ( one of my informants when I asked her about this said , " Oh yes , everyone went to Sunday School " ) . |
| 3 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 4 | I must mention one member — Angela ( nee Feetenby ) — for her help to me has been second to none — not only do I congratulate her for that but on your behalf I want to wish her every happiness in her new life — she was married last July to Harry Bell . |
| 5 | I think she 's a bit upset , I think she thinks I 'm better , I 'm better than her because I beat her in that , and I think she 's , a bit of shock for her . |
| 6 | Erm what did we do yes , well we went , I , I went to Isobel at what , I found her at three , we had . |
| 7 | I helped her at first but it was a mistake . ’ |
| 8 | I told her about one or two little things . |
| 9 | When I told her about this |
| 10 | When I told her about this . |
| 11 | I told her of that woman novelist who made a character in Provence ladle out onion soup , followed by bouillabaisse for luncheon , and in summer too . |
| 12 | I do n't know bloody well like me , because I told her off one day , told her where to bloody go to . |
| 13 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 14 | said down the corridor he walked in his full uniform , the first morning say and that memory son will always stick ya , cos when I give her over that picture of the twins at Christmas , she , she looked up , she sort of looked up at me , she said I 've got tears in my eyes have n't I , and I looked and like I was choked as well and I , she sort of , I said yeah you are and she said , every time I look at them it brings back those memories the first memories of this little boy |
| 15 | So one day , I got a newspaper , I rolled it up and I walloped her like mad . |
| 16 | and I , I showed her around some I , on the way back I said I 'll take you to Branston Park on the way back and I 'll show you where John 's working and I took her on to the , into the car park and I said look there he is up , huh , cutting the lawn , he was up cutting that , the big lawn she said one massive place I mean I took her all the way through Branston Park back to erm |
| 17 | I admired her at first , wanting to help the slaves . |
| 18 | ‘ I owe her above all … love . ’ |
| 19 | I taught her for several hours every day in the library , although it was not easy to make her concentrate on anything for long , as she was clearly not used to the discipline of lessons . |
| 20 | But then — in view of the fact that you already had a boyfriend — I acquitted her of any devious motives . ’ |
| 21 | A few months after the aggravation I started her on Kali carb. 0/1 , progressing through 0/6. with steady amelioration , increasing energy and emotional well-being . |
| 22 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 23 | ‘ I knew her as one of my employees . |
| 24 | But even then , before I knew her at all , I sensed that normality was not really Karen 's thing . |
| 25 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 26 | I saw her with black hair and I told her it was great , but she prefers to be blonde . |
| 27 | I saw her at six the following evening . |
| 28 | I mean I saw her at eleven o'clock at night going jogging with a plastic bag wrapped around her arms . |
| 29 | she looks really weird without them on and I saw her like this |
| 30 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |