Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] him [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merely because I reminded him how unlikely he was to catch an heiress . ’ |
| 2 | Ten o'clock before I put him upstairs . |
| 3 | I had heard about the Dog Man before on my week-long journey from Kirk Yetholm towards Edale — travellers going north had told me as I journeyed south at first that the Dog Man was only three days ahead of me , then two days ahead of me , and then the final group of walkers had told me that it would n't be long before I caught him up . |
| 4 | So when I met him once I asked him ‘ Why do you do that ? ’ ; to which he replied , ‘ I could n't think of anything else . |
| 5 | Not that I fancied him before but . |
| 6 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 7 | It was weeks ago , just before I threw him out . ’ |
| 8 | I 've had to go back up in to him , yeah , but I do n't know what happened last night , I do n't know whether he was not quite tired enough , erm , he must of got up as soon as I put him down and started sort of moaning then I went into the girls and I sorted them out he started screaming he did , so I had to go to him in and lay him down and making him lay down |
| 9 | ‘ He 'll leave as soon as I pay him off . ’ |
| 10 | So he 's got all his bricks up virtually I think he said , but I ai n't worried about it cos I 'll get rid of them somewhere and I helped him out , I sold this car and , and told him what I was doing and he come I 've just the thing for you , just cos was having bricks like your dad 's , the sand grain sort of brick , you know . |
| 11 | He was just about to walk off when I pulled him back on . |
| 12 | I had tried hard to destroy all feelings of love for him , but now that I saw him again , I could not stop myself loving him . |
| 13 | ‘ Connor said he would climb out and I told him not to be stupid , ’ she said . |
| 14 | And on the Dixon fight , the British , European and Commonwealth champion said : ‘ I gave him a taste but he got a bit feisty by trying to hit me back and I took him out . |
| 15 | I was eight years old when he died ; his death affected me deeply and profoundly and I miss him still . |
| 16 | Now , he does n't say anything about penis envy in , in putting that forward and I do n't know whether penis envy was in his mind at the time he wrote those words and even if I asked him today , he probably would n't admit it . |
| 17 | But I feel I should return just a moment to the matter of my father ; for it strikes me I may have given the impression earlier that I treated him rather bluntly over his declining abilities . |
| 18 | I mean I 'll go out and do my bit in the way I know how and I leave him behind . |
| 19 | Never called greatest cat , really is , I mean , come towards ya , grab you and bite you and then if I throw him away about five minutes later he 'll come up and bite you again you know , really fucking , do n't just like , just keeps on doing it . |
| 20 | Three weeks went by before I saw him again and that was the day the coach left Sweetmary . |
| 21 | He stared at me blankly as I held him forward until the spasm passed . |