Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] him " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It 's there where I met him . |
| 2 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although I loved him dearly , he was a bit of a rascal and liked the drink far too much . |
| 8 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That was the point that I heard him make in Brighton . |
| 11 | ‘ I was so terrified that I fought him all the way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Blair worked on the islands for a number of years and I confess that I envied him . |
| 14 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 21 | And , though I hate to admit it , the fact that I saw him differently was Sophie 's doing . |
| 22 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 23 | I had tried hard to destroy all feelings of love for him , but now that I saw him again , I could not stop myself loving him . |
| 24 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 25 | Beesley 's case offered corroboration : the hero of the Titanic was a blanket-forger and transvestite imposter ; how just and appropriate , therefore , that I fed him false cricket scores . |
| 26 | But I feel I should return just a moment to the matter of my father ; for it strikes me I may have given the impression earlier that I treated him rather bluntly over his declining abilities . |
| 27 | You must have realised that I resented him . ’ |
| 28 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 29 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 30 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |