Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] he " in BNC.

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1 It 's there where I met him .
2 Bozo stares up and down the road and wonders what to do before he finally fixes his bleary gaze where I hoped he would , and trudges away towards the phonebox .
3 Without waiting for my assent , he pulled writing materials from his cloak , where I saw he had several notebooks .
4 I decided to rent a room for him in a house near ours , where I thought he would be safe for the moment .
5 He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day .
6 ‘ He was still nice , or I thought he was .
7 He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment .
8 In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory .
9 Eubank took a comfortable unanimous decision — although I had him winning by only one round and plenty of ringsiders thought he had n't made it .
10 I like the way that Rob McCaffrey 's commentary allows you time to enjoy the action , although I thought he could pay a little more attention to his scripting in places .
11 I did not struggle , and spoke politely to him , although I knew he did not understand any of my languages .
12 Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been .
13 Although I loved him dearly , he was a bit of a rascal and liked the drink far too much .
14 It was n't until he asked if he could take some off that I realised he had got himself well wrapped up — with 24 articles of clothing , ’ said Taylor .
15 I was so surprised that I followed him without a word .
16 I loved Tom McMahon too — you must n't be thinking I did n't , that I cheated him , but it was a different sort of love .
17 I delivered what was to be my longest speech of the evening , saying that I gathered he was keen to talk about his role , to talk about Gary .
18 That was the point that I heard him make in Brighton .
19 ‘ I was so terrified that I fought him all the way .
20 These recent watercolours , larger , bolder and stronger than his earlier work , pleased me so much when first I saw them that I offered him an exhibition at Abbot Hall .
21 Blair worked on the islands for a number of years and I confess that I envied him .
22 Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’
23 ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili .
24 I always felt that Basil was a very shy , warm hearted man with a special sort of honesty and I am glad that I knew him .
25 I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends .
26 ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’
27 I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate .
28 Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay .
29 And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing .
30 Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’
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