Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kissed the rose , and that night , in bed , I placed it where he desired me to . |
| 2 | ‘ He escorted me to his lodgings , where he treated me with every kindness , and dried my clothes whilst I managed a few hours sleep . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Where else — where he goes I go . |
| 4 | And the situations I imagine ( where he forsakes me ) are real . |
| 5 | He 'd like the power and he 'd like knowing he had me where he wanted me . |
| 6 | He took me in his arms and carried me downstairs to the library , where he put me in front of the fire , and gave me a glass of wine . |
| 7 | Finding Alec Davidson was much easier than I thought although he surprised me by what he had become . |
| 8 | The police came within half an hour and the officer was sympathetic although he advised me not to expect the thieves to be caught . |
| 9 | Naturally , Eliot was pleased about my enthusiasm for Collingwood , for whom he had considerable regard ; but although he told me he liked the Essay on Philosophical Method , which had appeared in 1933 and concerning which I had attended Collingwood 's lecture-course in my first year , I could see that he was more interested in such works as A. E. Taylor 's Faith of a Moralist , or more directly theological works , such as those of Jacques Maritain . |
| 10 | well although he told me he 'd er , he 'd , well he 'd had a reasonable catch he 'd er , remember them , bring one up |
| 11 | I retained a friendship for George Brown , although he regarded me with rather dubious approval because of my omission to drink anything at any dinner party . |
| 12 | Immediately he lent me his support , his judgement and helped me find a publisher , putting me in touch with Jan Martens and the Fonds Mercator which publish admirable art books . |
| 13 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 14 | That he heard I was so tremendously successful in the Gothic style that if he let me alone I should Gothicize the whole country , &c. , &c. , & c . |
| 15 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 16 | I felt that he thought I wanted to run the last leg for the glory . |
| 17 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 18 | His grin suggested that he thought I 'd trade in my TI notebook for some new whizz-bang offering . |
| 19 | I had an idea that he thought I was someone else . |
| 20 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |
| 21 | It was not until Aunt Kit rang me up , three days later , and abused me for ten minutes between tearing bouts of coughing , saying that I had hurt ‘ poor Lil ’ quite unbearably , that he said I had been wrong to write it . |
| 22 | I think that a little bit apprehensive on things like that , and course when he saw Tony asked whether ga , whether he could go and Tony said no , I 'm sorry Doc but that he said I 've got my ponies and things there and I do n't want people shooting there ! |
| 23 | Would you believe that he said I 've got to work on the aeroplane this week , I 've got the week off , I 've got to work on the aeroplane , I , you know , I shall be alright , down the airfield , er on the Wednesday he arrived to see how we were getting on , complaining like made because he had n't been able to find where the cottage was , I said but I 'd left you a detailed map , |
| 24 | so I er he said er no he said , it 's not that he said I do n't like people to tell me you 've got to do overtime today , he said , I like to be asked ! |
| 25 | He said cos I used to keep the house tidy he said I 've been the in the army June an he said I can I can run a household he said but we and then working the shifts I do he said and go up the horses and that he said I just do n't get time to do it ! |
| 26 | It could be that he felt I represented authority or the establishment in some way , or perhaps I was just convenient |
| 27 | I could swear that he told me he did n't know ! |
| 28 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |
| 29 | It was only much later , in 1981 , that he told me what had happened . |
| 30 | He spoke in a voice that he told me was his Courtroom voice . |