Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] i [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think if you had asked Freud what 's the minimum number numerically for one of , for the Bond Freud Crowds , Freud would have thought for a bit and I think he would have said three . |
| 2 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 3 | Asked by police what had happened , Mr Graham said : ‘ He attacked me with a hammer and I stabbed him . ’ |
| 4 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 5 | Mig Romerez did not even recognise a football when I showed him one but his exotic appearance should be enough to impress those bumpkins in ‘ The Tip ’ crowd . |
| 6 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 7 | He opened a door into a corridor and I followed him down it . |
| 8 | But Rosenthal will not be rushed into a transfer and I believe he is hoping for a cross-Channel move . |
| 9 | All at once I was gusted along , and really felt : a heartbeat when I saw him , a warmth when he touched me ; I smelt the flowers he bought me and the spicy perfume he put on his skin . |
| 10 | It 's just that Hubert was always such a fool when I knew him , and I hoped he might have acquired a little common sense in the meantime . |
| 11 | Recently I 'd been punched and kicked to the ground by a teacher because I called him a queer . |
| 12 | Micky Danby is a pratt and I owe him a few scores meself . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The story is that there 's an irresponsible , bored lunatic in Deptford , and I ought to keep him in a cage until I need him . ’ |
| 14 | He was silent a moment and I thought he was n't going to answer that . |
| 15 | My dad was once testing me on my biology and we came up to these films and the subject of drugs and I said just , you know , just as a joke and I thought he would just laugh it off , I said have you done any ? |
| 16 | Which I think is a blessing cos I think he 's a real so and so . |
| 17 | He now sounded as though he were beginning a lecture and I thought he must have learned that intonation from his tutors . |
| 18 | ‘ He called me a name and I called him a name , ’ said Ditka . |
| 19 | Did n't she realise what a sacrifice when I asked him to make it . |
| 20 | D'Aubigny was dressed simply in a dark brown tunic like a forester and I gathered he was about to go hunting . |
| 21 | Andrew was a toddler when I met him ; he was an expert at tantrums when he did n't get his own way . |
| 22 | He gave me a hint when I interviewed him in Helsinki not long before he also was murdered . ’ |
| 23 | A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed . |
| 24 | ‘ Well he needed a refill so I gave him a hand to push his hand cart into Berkeley last night . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ One pulled out a knife and I thought he was going to kill me . |
| 26 | He dodged behind a bus and I thought he 'd been knocked down . |
| 27 | We went to a café and I told him to get what he wanted . |
| 28 | anyway he went to the toilet , went a wee and I put him back in bed and he was laid there and anyway and , and he eventually dropped off , anyway I was telling my mum about it yesterday , and I did n't sort of think no more of it the next day , right , and mum I said well if ever he gets that again she said you should from the doctor she said , because , one of our boys had it she said and it was a blockage |
| 29 | It seemed a year before I got him out of there . |
| 30 | ‘ He said he would buy me a hat and I told him we 'd wait until they got the new 'uns in ; but when we come to it a week or two later he would n't spend his money . |