Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he had seen the enemy aircraft and , as he winged over into a steep dive I followed him without question . |
| 2 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |
| 3 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 4 | ‘ That afternoon I asked him about it . |
| 5 | This afternoon I confronted him with my suspicions , and he admitted everything . |
| 6 | With deliberate irony I took him to Lock 's in St James 's Street , the most aristocratic hat-maker in London . |
| 7 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 8 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 9 | Outside in the corridor I grabbed him by the elbow . |
| 10 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 11 | The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man . |
| 12 | One friend of mine — I had n't seen him in a while , then one day I met him in school with my head covered , and he said : ‘ Yasmin , have you gone religious ? ’ |
| 13 | The day I met him in London , he was disappointed because a black comedy thriller with Dennis Hopper and Kyle MacLachlan had fallen through . |
| 14 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 15 | Next day I shot him in the arm during our fight , thought that was the end of the whole thing , and left France . |
| 16 | In a feature interview with Percy Grainger next day I found him to be a charming and modest man , and was glad to write in glowing terms of his keyboard mastery , his repertoire , and his travels . |
| 17 | With my own nose barely above water I held him with his head just higher than mine , but he still was n't breathing . |
| 18 | " I thought the same thing the night I saw him with her wedding-dress . |
| 19 | I usually let him out of the pram but last week I lost him for five minutes in Tesco , ’ she said . |
| 20 | Every morning I drove him to the hospital , waited for his X-ray treatment , drove him home again and helped him to bed . |
| 21 | Handing him a cigarette I left him with a final warning . |
| 22 | Tony arrived from Crewe by car at 7.30 p.m. and before he even put down his suitcase I questioned him about the ‘ Heritage ’ tour . |
| 23 | Crawling across the floor I trapped him behind the settee . |
| 24 | Old Saul was the culprit , Old Saul had gone down in our history and my personal mythology as the Castraitor , but thanks to the little creatures who flew the creek I had him in my power now . |
| 25 | This piece of information I gave him with a triumphant smile . |
| 26 | When he came home he was distant and vague , and preoccupied , and in the end I accused him of having a mistress . ’ |
| 27 | But although he was terse , he did n't rage at me the way I expected him to . |
| 28 | At the hotel I paid him in cash with a bonus and sent him on his way , and was in time to see Filmer 's backview receding into a dark-looking bar as I walked into the big central hall lobby . |
| 29 | She says ; The last time I saw him with the two children was on Saturday . |
| 30 | This was the fifth time I had him on the floor , so the referee was right to stop it ’ . |