Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't dare return to the-place where I 'd killed him because I could easily arouse suspicion . |
| 2 | Later I saw blood on my hand where I 'd grabbed him . |
| 3 | He says the fans are rather less impassioned than elsewhere in Italy , although I had to tell him that once , when Trevor Francis missed a penalty for Sampdoria , his car was bombarded and his son , Matthew , was struck by a stone . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
| 5 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 6 | To tell you that I 've killed him ! ’ |
| 7 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
| 8 | ‘ If I do n't talk to you about your father , Alex , it is n't that I 've forgotten him , but Mr Morgan would n't like it . ’ |
| 9 | I say I am bored , and that I hope to see him that evening . |
| 10 | I did n't know what to say : I could n't believe that I 'd heard him correctly . |
| 11 | I always wish now that I 'd met him . |
| 12 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 13 | Through the years that I 'd known him , I 'd watched him grow in mind and body and now felt a twinge of pride that he had grown so well . |
| 14 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
| 15 | Andrew Stavanger was compelled to turn to the bank for help after the dock strikes , and it was then that I got to know him . |
| 16 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 17 | Lord Wittisham believes that I wish to marry him . |
| 18 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 19 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 20 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 21 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 22 | It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love . |
| 23 | And then he was very er well now I 'm sorry after he 'd put all the hard work with me , he was very very annoyed and disappointed that I had let him down so . |
| 24 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 25 | I was happy in that I felt that I had paid him back a little for the thousands of hours he had spent at West London Stadium , stopwatch in hand , urging us all on to greater things . |
| 26 | Of course , my real reason was that I hoped to get him back , but it has n't worked . ’ |
| 27 | The next morning , although he felt better , his hands were shaking so much that I refused to let him shave with a safety razor and told him that a friend was bringing his own electric shaver to lend him . |
| 28 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 29 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 30 | So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning . |