Example sentences of "he [vb past] i [be] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did he rebel because he guessed I was throwing you at him ? ’ |
| 2 | Poor love , ’ she smiled faintly , ‘ he was half asleep , and at first when he heard what I had to say he thought I was leaving him in the lurch after all . |
| 3 | As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him . |
| 4 | I never discovered for certain if he knew I was watching him . |
| 5 | At the back of my mind , perhaps , was a kind of childish vanity : there is a lot of dull , humdrum work to be done in local politics and I felt Richard would not be impressed if he knew I was abandoning him three nights a week in order to address envelopes or collect jumble . |