Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bozo stares up and down the road and wonders what to do before he finally fixes his bleary gaze where I hoped he would , and trudges away towards the phonebox . |
| 2 | Without waiting for my assent , he pulled writing materials from his cloak , where I saw he had several notebooks . |
| 3 | I decided to rent a room for him in a house near ours , where I thought he would be safe for the moment . |
| 4 | ‘ He was still nice , or I thought he was . |
| 5 | I like the way that Rob McCaffrey 's commentary allows you time to enjoy the action , although I thought he could pay a little more attention to his scripting in places . |
| 6 | I did not struggle , and spoke politely to him , although I knew he did not understand any of my languages . |
| 7 | It was n't until he asked if he could take some off that I realised he had got himself well wrapped up — with 24 articles of clothing , ’ said Taylor . |
| 8 | I delivered what was to be my longest speech of the evening , saying that I gathered he was keen to talk about his role , to talk about Gary . |
| 9 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 10 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 11 | And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing . |
| 12 | the chap that I sent he thought he knew what a confined space was . |
| 13 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 14 | Not that I thought he understood the music that much , but it was the image of he people behind the music , because people like Charlie Mingus are quite characters . |
| 15 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 16 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 17 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 18 | I told him that I thought he was much too gentle in his handling of the miners and the owners , and especially the latter , and that there were a lot of things he ought to have said . |
| 19 | Oh right , I see when you said that I thought he was going to an army regiment that they put up in Gloucester |
| 20 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 21 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 22 | I said his bed looked gorgeous and added , just in passing , that I hoped he 'd put up a wooden fence , as a metal one would n't do much for either garden . |
| 23 | I do not now deny that I hoped he would lead us to him . |
| 24 | It was only when I did n't , and we 'd been making love without contraceptives for months and months , that I decided he must have been right . ’ |
| 25 | But erm as I say , they did er , the people did but you never got nothing off the government for it and er , I 've always said it , he must have been a much better man than I thought he was because er , er , to go as I say from what it was in those days to start his own business and that . |
| 26 | This morning he followed ‘ Hi ’ with ‘ How 's life treats you ? , ’ so I thought he must have learned more English while I was away . |
| 27 | He could tell I fancied her myself , so I assumed he was just making sure I knew how the land lay . |
| 28 | From where I was out in the audience I could n't see what Clarence White was doing — so I assumed he was playing bottleneck |
| 29 | He calls his wife the memsahib , so I guessed he served in India . |
| 30 | I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right . |