Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [vb past] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 2 | I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right . |
| 3 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 4 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 5 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 6 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |
| 7 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 8 | Asked by police what had happened , Mr Graham said : ‘ He attacked me with a hammer and I stabbed him . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd give this Sir Benson Craig a piece of my mind if I met him , that I would . |
| 10 | I was reading with my five-year-old son David and I asked him : ‘ What do we get from cows ? ’ |
| 11 | One look at Meadowbrook and I knew he was hopeless for us . |
| 12 | Well it 's roughly about five pound and , one pound and I thought he said one pound forty a pint . |
| 13 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 14 | ‘ He jumped to the side and I missed him . |
| 15 | ‘ He is not the most robust horse but I knew he was in good shape . |
| 16 | He was a bit suspicious I must admit when I bought him those Janet Reger nighties but I knew he 'd never get the chance to wear them . |
| 17 | As far as I 'm concerned , I went to Hector because I knew him and I knew he 'd let me have a boat cheaply , and I 've used it since then — since the fifteenth — for pleasure , and now to come over and look my people up . |
| 18 | Mig Romerez did not even recognise a football when I showed him one but his exotic appearance should be enough to impress those bumpkins in ‘ The Tip ’ crowd . |
| 19 | I did n't drive to work , so he would n't recognize my car when I followed him . |
| 20 | I confess that I literally gasped with disbelief when I heard him calmly announce his determination to get rid of the poll tax at the first possible opportunity . |
| 21 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 22 | ‘ He was simply unable to make the decision so I asked him , ‘ What do you want from your life ? ’ |
| 23 | He wanted work and to pay for the damage so I offered him a job . ’ |
| 24 | so if you wanted to go see if you change William 's thing to the colour I want and if they had , he said he thought the shirt that the guy got with it matched it better than the smaller check , so do you wan na give him that check shirt that I bought him ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The gardener , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and I pursued him down the garden and into the bluebell wood . |
| 28 | He seemed to know a lot about female mysteries and I wanted him to explain . |
| 29 | ‘ He was a proper bastard , and a rotten influence and I hated him . ’ |
| 30 | One big American came out to do his act and I saw him blanch , and then visibly pull himself together before proceeding . |