Example sentences of "[noun] [that] i [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 2 | An Amex gold card that I suspect he ca n't use . |
| 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 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | [ 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 . " |
| 9 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That was the point that I heard him make in Brighton . |
| 15 | He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He never once put his hand into his box all the years that I served him , ’ meaning he never gave me a gift of money , a bonus for service above and beyond the call of time . |
| 18 | And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing . |
| 19 | ‘ It is unusual ’ , he wrote , ‘ for a bishop to confirm his own father — but it is as a great Nonconformist that I revere him . ’ |
| 20 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 21 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 22 | A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true . |
| 23 | ‘ Except for one or two episodes that I suppose he could n't miss , just to try , there was never a chance . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 26 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 27 | I look forward to hearing from the hon. Gentleman how he will deal with the complaints that I expect he will receive from his constituents , when he has to explain to those employed at Guy 's hospital why the Labour party 's policies would deny that hospital the opportunity to increase staff pay by £6 a week . |
| 28 | Somebody I , ones that I give him that I thought he |
| 29 | the chap that I sent he thought he knew what a confined space was . |
| 30 | Carson was such an affable chap that I persuaded him to agree with me ( and Alf ) to continue along progressive lines . |