Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] i [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to know a lot about female mysteries and I wanted him to explain . |
| 2 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 3 | The lock sticks and I heard him turning his key . |
| 4 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 5 | On two occasions he joined large dinner parties designed to raise money for particular charities and I witnessed him reduced to slumping over the table on folded arms , where he remained comatose until gently removed at the end of the meal . |
| 6 | He finished packing up his newsletters and I followed him upstairs into the bar . |
| 7 | He had not been one of the late Stalin 's critics , but I liked the way he sang his large repertoire of Scottish folksongs and I heeded him when he denounced Butch and Sundance . |
| 8 | ‘ We became roommates and I taught him all he knows . ’ |
| 9 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 10 | Albert Spanswick came from the old school of trade union leaders and I found him a more persuasive advocate for health service workers than Rodney Bickerstaffe . |
| 11 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State for Scotland will recall that , when my colleagues and I met him and the Secretary of State for the Environment during the consultation period on local government funding , we argued our case on local income tax and pursued the issue of costing . |