Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] he " in BNC.
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| 31 | But I did not stop him coming back , and do not , I beg of you , ask me to try and explain that . |
| 32 | I just stared back at him as if I did not recognize him , then moved away out of sight behind another screen . |
| 33 | I , I did not show him |
| 34 | I did not fool him . |
| 35 | He stared into my eyes , challenging me to defy him , and when I did not move he looked back to Ellen . |
| 36 | I did not meet him socially until 1975 when we were both invited as guest speakers to the annual dinner of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne division of the Royal Naval Reserves . |
| 37 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 38 | I did not question him because I knew he would be unable to describe what and how he felt , even if he had been willing to do so . |
| 39 | Since I was not going to discuss the future with him , I did not ask him to elaborate , but I registered his disappointment and thought that , if that was how he felt , he was making it easier for me to leave him . |
| 40 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
| 41 | No , I am dealing with the Foreign Secretary , who gave me a circumlocutory reply to a question that I did not ask him . |
| 42 | I did not know him . |
| 43 | ‘ Sir , I did not know him . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ I did not know he was injured . |
| 45 | I did not know he was married . |
| 46 | He added : ‘ I did not know he was not going to play until I got here . |
| 47 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
| 48 | ‘ I did not call him officer , you twat , ’ he said . |
| 49 | To excuse my ineptitude I did not enlighten him . |
| 50 | I did not believe him — but I wanted to . |
| 51 | I did not like him then and he did not like me . |
| 52 | ‘ That man did not like me , ’ Charity said quietly , and added to herself , And I did not like him . |
| 53 | ‘ I did not imagine he was about to escape , ’ Felipe said coolly . |
| 54 | He was your father , James , and I did not kill him . |
| 55 | Even I did not recognise him from his actions . ’ |
| 56 | But I did not contradict him . |
| 57 | Perhaps Alec noticed that I did not ridicule him as the others did . |
| 58 | Omar had bribed the telephone operator to leave his office , but I did not trust him to stay away . |
| 59 | At least , I did not catch him whispering to any of the other people going in and out of the place , and he did not point me out to anyone at any time . |
| 60 | Still — ‘ I did not see him again and I did not want to ’ . |