Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy ’ — he put his hand out towards her — ‘ I 've got him where I want him , where we all want him . |
| 2 | Where I find him occasionally disappointing is in the dreamier world of the Gymnopédies and the more intriguing Sonneries de la Rose Croix ( one of the composer 's Rosicrucian works ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 4 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's not easy to describe , although I remember him perfectly . |
| 6 | Although I remember him stepping out of them and the sight of his white pants , I felt it was not seemly to observe too closely : otherwise I should have been able to verify the assertion that his underclothes were American but the rest very English . |
| 7 | He thinks nothing of staying up till two or three o'clock in the morning in casinos , although I tell him it 's very , very bad for one 's constitution to have irregular hours . |
| 8 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
| 9 | It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’ |
| 10 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 11 | I recall vividly one member of the aristocracy who was in such a state about being interviewed on TV that he insisted that I help him go through a half bottle of whisky first . |
| 12 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 13 | It was not so much by what Basil said that I remember him but by what he did . |
| 14 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
| 15 | ‘ It is unusual ’ , he wrote , ‘ for a bishop to confirm his own father — but it is as a great Nonconformist that I revere him . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes I feel so lonely , so sick of my own thoughts , that I let him . |
| 17 | ‘ Look , I am Simpkin 's right hand man and he believes that I tell him . |
| 18 | Anyway , I 'm not certain that I like him . |
| 19 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 20 | There is no need to postulate different negative elements , or different meanings of like : it is enough to allow the negative element either to take the whole of the rest of the sentence as its scope ( Neg ( I like him ) ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ It 's not true that I like him , ’ or the single element like ( I Neg-like him ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ I dislike him . ’ ’ |
| 21 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
| 22 | It 's just that I like him and it 's silly to pretend I do n't for the sake of pride . |
| 23 | Can you tell him please that I wish him happiness ? ’ |
| 24 | It 's not , you understand , that I fear him discovering a private purchase of a packet of fags and a bottle of Veuve du Vernay . |
| 25 | Not quite able to turn this down , he insists instead that I telephone him on Saturday morning to confirm . |
| 26 | Mummy said to me , mummy said to me that I wash him . |
| 27 | I shall make sure that I send him a copy of my speech tomorrow , which will give detail after detail of what is actually taking place in the valleys . |
| 28 | It is with no disrespect to her that I give him preference . |
| 29 | But he complains that I give him the impression that I am holding back and am not fully committed . |
| 30 | Somebody I , ones that I give him that I thought he |