Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 2 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Asked by police what had happened , Mr Graham said : ‘ He attacked me with a hammer and I stabbed him . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd give this Sir Benson Craig a piece of my mind if I met him , that I would . |
| 6 | I was reading with my five-year-old son David and I asked him : ‘ What do we get from cows ? ’ |
| 7 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 8 | ‘ He jumped to the side and I missed him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I did n't drive to work , so he would n't recognize my car when I followed him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 14 | ‘ He was simply unable to make the decision so I asked him , ‘ What do you want from your life ? ’ |
| 15 | He wanted work and to pay for the damage so I offered him a job . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The gardener , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and I pursued him down the garden and into the bluebell wood . |
| 19 | He seemed to know a lot about female mysteries and I wanted him to explain . |
| 20 | ‘ He was a proper bastard , and a rotten influence and I hated him . ’ |
| 21 | One big American came out to do his act and I saw him blanch , and then visibly pull himself together before proceeding . |
| 22 | He opened a door into a corridor and I followed him down it . |
| 23 | He would n't dare scream for help if I robbed him . |
| 24 | After a while he went out into the hall and I heard him pick up the thing that makes noises and which he talks into when there 's no-one here . |
| 25 | Afterwards Ivanisevic described his opponent as ‘ an idol for me ’ and said : ‘ This match is always going to be in my memory because he is leaving tennis and I beat him . |
| 26 | Matt said afterwards he 'd half expected the whole thing would turn out to be a wild goose chase and I told him I thought the same . |
| 27 | You know , Pete and I encouraged him like anything in his writing . |
| 28 | So he finally they made him port captain for for Cunard and I knew him . |
| 29 | I asked him to go away after lunch and I asked him to go away after supper , and he went away both times . |
| 30 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |