Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] i [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not been one of the late Stalin 's critics , but I liked the way he sang his large repertoire of Scottish folksongs and I heeded him when he denounced Butch and Sundance . |
| 2 | ‘ He was a proper bastard , and a rotten influence and I hated him . ’ |
| 3 | In the early weeks after I had him I suffered from postnatal depression . |
| 4 | He was just about to start on his nineteenth nervous breakdown when I left him . ’ |
| 5 | I radioed one of my men to bring along an extra trailer and I told him to tip it up when he brought it into the field to make sure it was clean |
| 6 | Carson was such an affable chap that I persuaded him to agree with me ( and Alf ) to continue along progressive lines . |
| 7 | At the door he turned and gave me a last despairing look and I saw him no more . |
| 8 | ‘ He was a very unique person and I saw him more deeply than I think other people did . |
| 9 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 10 | Must be a bug ; Luke 's got it , too , not to mention behaving like a bear with a sore head when I told him I wanted to take an early lunch . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He was a good driver and I trusted him implicitly . |
| 12 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 13 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 14 | AFTER months of enduring the relentless taunts of Robin Cook , my Somerset neighbour William Waldegrave was in remarkably equable mood when I found him washing his car on Friday morning . |
| 15 | They were in chronological order and I saw him grow older before my eyes . |
| 16 | In Oxford , the voice of the gnomic Professor Sammy Finer , a declared political agnostic , rose a full octave when I asked him about it : ‘ It simply is n't true any longer that merit will out . |
| 17 | I heard something about this he said , er I was on holidays all last week he said but erm it 's bloody lies cos I saw him last week . |
| 18 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 19 | On two occasions he joined large dinner parties designed to raise money for particular charities and I witnessed him reduced to slumping over the table on folded arms , where he remained comatose until gently removed at the end of the meal . |
| 20 | He was a very big man and I saw him threatening and banging . |
| 21 | But he gave me a good smile and a big goodbye when I left him so . |
| 22 | He seemed to know a lot about female mysteries and I wanted him to explain . |
| 23 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 24 | I did not think of following him , my feet seemed rooted to the sandy path and I saw him through a mist of tears as he appeared to melt through the door , which closed behind him . |
| 25 | So somehow it was reassuring to find he had a sore throat when I saw him last Thursday . |
| 26 | My heart gave me an unforgettable jolt when I thought him to be headless ; yet there was no blood staining the fresh , even snow . |
| 27 | It was about a week later and my leathers were still a little ruffled after the grating incident when I saw him sitting all alone in the waiting room . |
| 28 | ‘ I promised myself I 'd smash his handsome face when I saw him on the prison-ship . |