Example sentences of "[adj] that i [verb] he " in BNC.
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1 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
2 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
3 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
4 | I think it fortunate that I met him as I am persuaded I can cure him of his disorder or turn the evil to good ’ . |
5 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
6 | I always felt that Basil was a very shy , warm hearted man with a special sort of honesty and I am glad that I knew him . |
7 | But I accidentally hit Jason full on the jaw so hard that I knocked him over . |
8 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
9 | My poor friend Mr. Carter is so very ill that I doubt he ca n't recover . |
10 | I know that sounds quite sad and it 's embarrassing that I copied him , but I ca n't help it because I thought it looked so great on him . |
11 | Quite sure that I love him . |
12 | I shall make sure that I send him a copy of my speech tomorrow , which will give detail after detail of what is actually taking place in the valleys . |
13 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
14 | He sounded so sincere that I forgave him at once in my heart . |
15 | It was n't until he asked if he could take some off that I realised he had got himself well wrapped up — with 24 articles of clothing , ’ said Taylor . |
16 | Terry , whose gentleness of heart so melted my own that I helped him sell his newspapers outside factories , on picket lines and outside East End tube stations at seven-thirty in the morning , was encouraging . |
17 | Anyway , I 'm not certain that I like him . |
18 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
19 | ‘ I was so terrified that I fought him all the way . |
20 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
21 | There is no need to postulate different negative elements , or different meanings of like : it is enough to allow the negative element either to take the whole of the rest of the sentence as its scope ( Neg ( I like him ) ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ It 's not true that I like him , ’ or the single element like ( I Neg-like him ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ I dislike him . ’ ’ |