Example sentences of "he [vb past] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We argued about it but in the end he agreed I had to tell the Josephs . |
| 2 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 3 | He said he thought I had developed a very strong activity programme , and that my rapport with the guests was incredible . |
| 4 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 5 | ’ . Initially I was puzzled , until I realized he thought I had cut off my shirt sleeves , for in his force ( noted for its disciplined enforcement of a correct uniform presentation ) , all uniform shirts had long sleeves . |
| 6 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 7 | On 24 February 1947 , he wrote me an interim letter in which he said he thought I had tended to ‘ overwhelm the reader by a tendency to say too much at once ’ , and that the material might need some reorganization . |
| 8 | ‘ The only time I came close to lobbying was when I asked Dave Mannion , a friend for a long time , to tell me if he thought I 'd outlived my usefulness here , then I would slip quietly away . |
| 9 | He thought I 'd ridden to block him and help Cardus . |
| 10 | I was in bed for a week with concussion and the doctor said at first he thought I 'd got a broken pelvis . |
| 11 | I felt that he thought I wanted to run the last leg for the glory . |
| 12 | He 'd kill me if he knew I 'd made something like this . ’ |
| 13 | But he went on to say he knew I 'd spent the night at your place . |
| 14 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 15 | I had a circuit judge so everywhere he went I had to follow . |
| 16 | When he died I had to sell up . |
| 17 | if he did I had to write to out for him . |
| 18 | I nodded , cautious , not concerned with understanding ; because underlying everything he did I had come to detect an air of stage-management , of the planned and rehearsed . |
| 19 | Long before he appeared I had heard children saying |
| 20 | ‘ He said I 'd done something bad to deserve it , ’ said Rhoda . |
| 21 | N now you know when I went to see Dr he said I 'd got this enlarged heart ? |
| 22 | He said he said I 'd got legionnaires disease did n't he ? |
| 23 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 24 | He said I 'd changed . |
| 25 | I said oh no , no , he said I 've to go to Brussels you know and it 'll be all about , oh I thought I was really dreading it |
| 26 | He said I 've made twenty pounds overnight so that 's , yeah they 've gone up twenty P each cos I 've got a hundred |
| 27 | once a week to me and I ring him occasionally , and er his first remark which was quite erm natural he said well you know Ernest , he said I 've heard many ministers . |
| 28 | he said ah , ooh he said yes he said I 've heard a lot about it he said , there 's a lot of unhappy people , I said bloody place |
| 29 | So I held his hand all the way and mum was there and I said you 'll be alright dad I said do n't worry about it I said er , we 'll be here when you come out , he said yeah alright , I 'm alright , so as the surgeon came out he said look Mrs he said I 've seen your daughter , yeah , I have to say this to you he said it 's a fifty , fifty percent chance that John will come back from the operation , operation OK and he said it 's a one hundred percent chance he wo n't without surgery of course he do n't know anything , got his little cap on |
| 30 | He said I 've seen them put fifty . |