Example sentences of "[vb past] i [adv] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't know who he was , either , but he asked me where he could find you , and I told him I did n't know , and he said ‘ Are you new too ? ’ and then you arrived and … ’ |
| 2 | When I submitted our first Report to Mr Baker he asked me how he should explain what was meant by Standard English to the education journalists . |
| 3 | But for some reason she knew he was my brother , and she asked me how he was keeping these days . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He told me when he gave me this one . ’ |
| 5 | He did n't discuss it with me beforehand , just told me when he got back . ’ |
| 6 | He told me when he was dying . |
| 7 | " Devraux told me today he is going to Canton again soon , " he said in an excited whisper when his wife came to plunge her arms in the suds beside him . |
| 8 | He was married , you see , but he told me today he 'd left his wife . |
| 9 | on crime reminds me that Bob told me only he does n't , he does n't know how much Bridget knows , so we must n't say anything to her , but he said that there is some possibility that she may get erm , I think April time she may be made what 's called Court Officer |
| 10 | He told me how he had been deceived by a young man who claimed to be the son of a banker , and he had lost money in a gambling casino because he believed the con artist . |
| 11 | Siah Armanjani once told me how he used to see the movies in his native Persia in the 1950s . |
| 12 | As time went on the comments became less encouraging and more accusing , so that at the age of forty-five , in my study , he told me how he felt a failure and as a Christian unable to understand God as a God of love . |
| 13 | One young man told me how he was recruited into the South African police force . |
| 14 | He told me how he had had problems when young and had assumed that upon his marriage , he would break the habit . |
| 15 | Yngwie then told me how he created the orchestra on ‘ Fire And Ice ’ : ‘ We had two violins , a viola , a cello and a contrabass and we overdubbed that quartet four times , so on record it sounds like a chamber orchestra rather than just a quartet . |
| 16 | I 've never been the same since he told me how he hated fey women . |
| 17 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
| 18 | He told me how he worked his candy or piece of common-yard , dividing it into two by a path , and growing wheat on one side and vegetables on the other , changing over the crops each year . |
| 19 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 20 | Then he showed me why he needed me . |
| 21 | At times my sleepy little daughter was brought down from the nursery and stood on a stool while John draped pieces of material on her and showed me how he wanted the costume move and flow , and so help to illustrate what he wanted to express and convey to an audience . |
| 22 | He showed me how he gets his ‘ haze ’ effect . |
| 23 | We went out for a meal , and when he took me home he wanted to come in . |