Example sentences of "[art] [noun] i [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
| 2 | He says he 's taken up running ; he says he 's given up smoking ; he says he 's planning to pay back the money I lent him . |
| 3 | Then the guy round the corner , y'know , the one who 'd laid the gear on me , came round last month and started getting heavy about the money I owed him . |
| 4 | But I said I am the money I gave him his first flying lesson , I paid for it , like I bought his first three cars . |
| 5 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , I wrote to him in rather a hurry , and did n't take copies of the notes I sent him . |
| 7 | I never ceased to be astounded by how quickly and thoroughly he absorbed the notes I gave him . ’ |
| 8 | In the later stages of Metaltronix I had a guy work for me who had a tube engineering degree , but that kind of knowledge still does n't teach you about designing — the times I asked him to design certain circuits and he 'd just stare at me ! |
| 9 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 10 | A seventeenth-century libertine who wrote excellent satirical verse ( he 's the author of the famous epigram about Charles II : ‘ God bless our good and gracious king/Whose promise none relies on ; /Who never said a foolish thing , /Nor ever did a wise one ’ — one of the reasons I like him so much is that allegedly he recited it extempore to the king ) and some great , great poems about sex . |
| 11 | He said cos I used to keep the house tidy he said I 've been the in the army June an he said I can I can run a household he said but we and then working the shifts I do he said and go up the horses and that he said I just do n't get time to do it ! |
| 12 | ‘ He turned down the part I offered him then — which was the best thing he ever did . |
| 13 | Barry knows that 's where I 'll be , and if he 's half the sprout I know he is , he 'll meet up with me again . ’ |
| 14 | He is still at sea with the silver I gave him to discover fresh treasure . |
| 15 | No I think it was down the side I think he said . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When I saw him in the doorway I thought he 'd come to settle that score . |
| 18 | Things are now too simplified and Arnason dodged all the traps I set him to reach the drawing haven . |
| 19 | Outside in the corridor I grabbed him by the elbow . |
| 20 | Oddly enough , later on in the Mess I heard him repeat part of the rollicking , but not my reply , to the station commander . |
| 21 | ‘ If he hears rumours about what happened at the museum I want him to know that nothing terrible happened after all . ’ |
| 22 | He is using middleweight and light-heavyweight sparring partners in an attempt to make Cooney work faster , but in the session I watched he was not quick enough . |
| 23 | He is using middleweight and light-heavyweight sparring partners in an attempt to make Cooney work faster , but in the session I watched he was not quick enough . |
| 24 | ‘ If he 's the Sharpe I think he is , sir , then he 's quite a celebrated soldier . |
| 25 | On the spur of the moment I offered him 40 — he almost wept in gratitude . |
| 26 | That ‘ I knew the moment I saw him ’ ? ( people do say that about their men , more often than you 'd think ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I liked him the moment I met him but I never dreamed we 'd end up like this . |
| 28 | I wondered what he wanted , so I did it ; and in the interval of the rehearsal he came and said he was suffering from nervous shock because the moment I started he realized I was doing exactly the contrary of all the things he had taught the orchestra . |
| 29 | If I kicked him on the shin I bet he 'd limp away and not even glance to see who 'd done it . |
| 30 | ‘ From the position of the body I think he could have been sitting on the edge of the bed . |