Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I let him get clear before I turned Armstrong around and cruised down Dwyer Street . |
| 2 | Anyway , then he got sick- and I do n't remember any more : he was upstairs , and we rarely saw him . |
| 3 | ‘ He got annoyed when I said that though and said it was n't true , so I 'd like this time to say that although he appears to be very clever on stage and TV , in real life he is extremely stupid . ’ |
| 4 | He looks surprised when I ask if it is difficult to put so much energy into something for which you do n't get paid : ‘ It makes absolutely no difference at all . |
| 5 | He seemed relieved when I told him I was reading anthropology and , looking somewhat apprehensively over his shoulder at the sociology building , he muttered ‘ well thank goodness you 're not taking bloody sociology , with all those left wing bastards who hate the polis ’ . |
| 6 | He seemed pleased when I told him how much I appreciated such poems as ‘ Cool Tombs ’ , ‘ The Hangman ’ , ‘ Kalamazoo ’ , ‘ Chicago — Hog Butcher ’ , and his later volume ‘ Good Morning , America ’ . |
| 7 | He gets annoyed if I say anything about it , but that does n't stop him going on about how slim I was at 17 when we first met . |
| 8 | Well Kirsty said something to me and I said oh I do n't think so , I said I think he 's , you know , I , I 've heard that , you know , he seems a quite sincere kind of bloke , he seems nice but I do n't know that 's what I think but if he |
| 9 | But this time I think he meant excited-nervous because I think he knew he was going to win his first major . |
| 10 | He looked sad and I knew he did n't want her to leave but I also knew that he hated the constant uproar of quarrelling , so what was he to do ? |
| 11 | He looked offended but I guessed his idea of discretion was swapping his length of lead pipe for a rubber truncheon . |
| 12 | He appeared satisfied when I told him that I did n't have a criminal record and shouted for somebody to come and show me upstairs . |
| 13 | How quickly he becomes relaxed if I allow him . |
| 14 | He smelt clean and I shut my eyes . |