Example sentences of "[adj] that i [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
| 2 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But I accidentally hit Jason full on the jaw so hard that I knocked him over . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Quite sure that I love him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He sounded so sincere that I forgave him at once in my heart . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Anyway , I 'm not certain that I like him . |
| 14 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 15 | ‘ I was so terrified that I fought him all the way . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ ’ |