Example sentences of "[noun sg] that i [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 2 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That was the point that I heard him make in Brighton . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It is unusual ’ , he wrote , ‘ for a bishop to confirm his own father — but it is as a great Nonconformist that I revere him . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 14 | Carson was such an affable chap that I persuaded him to agree with me ( and Alf ) to continue along progressive lines . |
| 15 | And , though I hate to admit it , the fact that I saw him differently was Sophie 's doing . |