Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] i [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver seemed upset when I told him . |
| 2 | He seemed relieved when I told him I was reading anthropology and , looking somewhat apprehensively over his shoulder at the sociology building , he muttered ‘ well thank goodness you 're not taking bloody sociology , with all those left wing bastards who hate the polis ’ . |
| 3 | A youth tried to sell me a Socialist Worker and seemed confused when I told him that in my experience the words were diametrically opposed . |
| 4 | He seemed pleased when I told him how much I appreciated such poems as ‘ Cool Tombs ’ , ‘ The Hangman ’ , ‘ Kalamazoo ’ , ‘ Chicago — Hog Butcher ’ , and his later volume ‘ Good Morning , America ’ . |
| 5 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 6 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 7 | I felt responsible because I encouraged him to be in the group in the first place , I persuaded him to stay when he wanted to go and yet in the end we asked him to leave , ’ says Gedge . |
| 8 | Benjamin just stared fascinated and I studied him rather than the condemned man for , as I have remarked before , Benjamin had a horror of public executions . |
| 9 | He appeared satisfied when I told him that I did n't have a criminal record and shouted for somebody to come and show me upstairs . |
| 10 | Left : ‘ If Pop said do n't , I did ; if he said black , I said white and I punished him daily , one way or another . |