Example sentences of "he [vb past] i [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may well have imagined when he met me that he was acquiring the means of escape from the kingdom of the past . |
| 2 | I know a guy who bowls at the Bromley Bowling Club in exactly and he told me that they have professional green keepers who look after lots of different greens and they come into them once a week or whatever . |
| 3 | Enthusiastically he told me that he 'd always wanted to visit Morocco , live there even , and that our hashish was the best of all . |
| 4 | He told me that he had once worked for Lipton 's Stores in London , very near my old school , Holloway Comprehensive . |
| 5 | He told me that he meant me no harm , but was a magician , who had made the music play around me , and wished to have my hand in marriage and live in my castle , with me and my brother , in peace hereafter . |
| 6 | With an air of great condescension he told me that he was ‘ prepared to give me a try-out ’ for a few hours a week . |
| 7 | He let me into one of his secrets when he told me that he tries to avoid cream sauces and prefers to use stock and wine reductions . |
| 8 | When we stopped , he told me that he saw Jesus leading him down the path away from St Luke 's and out into the street . |
| 9 | He told me that he liked my playing and that he would give me a ring when I got back to Milwaukee , and about three to four months later we actually formed a band and went on tour . |
| 10 | He told me that he had said to Ivy that he hoped between the three of us we might make head or tail of it , and she said , ‘ Well , we are three intelligent people , so I ca n't see why we should have any difficulty . ’ |
| 11 | When he told me that he had inherited the cardinal 's robes of his predecessor , Cardinal Heenan , and I asked if they fitted , he said , ‘ No . |
| 12 | ‘ He told me that he loved me and that was it . ’ |
| 13 | He told me that he called regularly at Koraloona , and that I probably would run across him from time to time . |
| 14 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 15 | When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged . |
| 16 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 17 | ‘ He told me that he hates dancing ! |
| 18 | He told me that he too had no particular worries about community care and that the provision of residential care was very good . |
| 19 | Also , he told me that he helped to run the polo match here in 1952 ; Lord Patrick Beresford , whose nephews the Earl of Tyrone and Lord Charles Beresford were both taking part , the former as umpire , and the latter playing . |
| 20 | After the lesson he told me that he wanted to buy a really good shirt he 'd seen somewhere , and I enquired into the resale potential of the item with a view to recovering my outlay in case of bankruptcy , which amused him further ; and then I gave him my terms . |
| 21 | He told me that he had come to the Legion so that he could kill people without going to prison . |
| 22 | The Chief-Corporal to whom I had given my sisters ' addresses at Canjuers was there , and he told me that he had sent my oldest sister a photograph of himself in a tank and one of his apartment in La Rochelle . |
| 23 | ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her . |
| 24 | Although he blamed himself rather than the department for his own failure , making comments like ‘ I 'm just not an academic basically ’ and ‘ I do n't think there 's a lot wrong with the course , if you want to do an academic course ’ , the path he saw himself as taking seemed directly opposed to the departmental ethos ; stating that he did n't want to do ‘ anything theoretical ’ , he told me that he wanted to train to be a nurse . |
| 25 | He told me that he would donate £5,000 to the fund if I would undertake to invite his little son , then at school in Oxford , to tea on odd occasions , so that I could acquaint him with some of the matters relating to Judaism . |
| 26 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |
| 27 | He told me that he had fallen into the water with Compeyson , and then been hit by the ship . |
| 28 | Intrigued , I invited him over and he told me that he was interested in the ‘ leg-over ’ possibilities of my back bedroom . |
| 29 | Afterwards he told me that he 'd thought I was going to start a revolution there and then . |
| 30 | ‘ But once he told me that he was n't about to change and that he was likely to be a lifetime philanderer , I saw red and thought , ‘ Screw you ! |