Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 32 | He bent to pick them up and I pulled him into the alley and smashed him up against the wall . |
| 33 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 34 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 35 | Thereafter , if I passed him in the corridor or on the staircase , those eyes registered no recognition . |
| 36 | If I kicked him on the shin I bet he 'd limp away and not even glance to see who 'd done it . |
| 37 | If I enter him for the race will you wager ten pounds for me ? ’ |
| 38 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ Until I met him in the flesh . |
| 40 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 41 | I disagreed with much of what he had to say , but I welcome him to the House from this Bench and look forward to debating these issues with him on many occasions . |
| 42 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 43 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 44 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 46 | He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags . |
| 47 | ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had . |
| 48 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ While I show him round the shop ’ |
| 50 | While I have him by the lapels I head-butt him across the face , to give him something else to think about . |
| 51 | ‘ Since I put him in the Melbourne Cup , which is a serious entry , we 've had enquiries from America , so he could yet change stables . ’ |
| 52 | Sometimes Benjamin would play on the lute he always carried , whilst I accompanied him on the rebec . |
| 53 | When I whipped him , when I whipped him into the side just down there . |
| 54 | The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty . |
| 55 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 56 | ‘ I promised myself I 'd smash his handsome face when I saw him on the prison-ship . |
| 57 | When I saw him in the doorway I thought he 'd come to settle that score . |
| 58 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 59 | But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank . |
| 60 | Then , when I see there is the doubt , that when I tell him about the baby . |