Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an embarrassing moment when I thought he was walking over to me to begin the programme and I got up to greet him . |
| 2 | Edward came back struggling with a load of planks , and I got up to help him . |
| 3 | K. R. I saw a fellow having an epileptic fit and I got down to hold him while he kicked out . |
| 4 | Even then Mr Pumblechook said , ‘ And fourteen ? ’ but I pretended not to hear him . |
| 5 | After half an hour or so , spent scratching mosquito bites , I head over to see him . |
| 6 | He sent me a number of his books , all suitably inscribed in his very Chinese style , and I stopped off to visit him and his wife at Brighton , south of Boston , in 1951 . |
| 7 | After his death , I learnt not to shut him out of my life and now I feel a comforting sense of continuity when I go through the boxes and find little notes by him which I have never seen before . |
| 8 | All I do know for sure is that I woke up loving him . |
| 9 | ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ How do you make a karaso ? ’ said Kalchu , repeating the question I 'd just asked him . |
| 11 | Recalling my dream , I thought it strange that , having gone to sleep wretched and fretting about Toby , I 'd completely forgotten him as soon as I lost consciousness . |
| 12 | ‘ God , I did n't realise I 'd even told him . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd not forgotten him , but I just could n't see why he 'd want to kill her . |
| 15 | ‘ He flew away just as I 'd nearly got him . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps that was because I 'd already warned him I 'd bop him on the nose if he tried it . |
| 17 | I 'd already told him where she kept it … and he was afraid that if he left it there it 'd be traced back to him . |
| 18 | Erm so we walked in and out of carriages as he sought a pair of seats together and erm squashed down , he had me like penned into the window , like I 've got my bag and my umbrella in between ha , and I 'd already told him I was going out with someone . |
| 19 | I 'd totally forgotten him ! |
| 20 | I 'd never rated him , but could n't have been more wrong . |
| 21 | ‘ I wish to hell I 'd never sent him to your school . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I wish to hell I 'd never sent him there . ’ |
| 23 | you 'd think I 'd never fed him ! |
| 24 | Whatever the extent of his self-inflicted frailty , I 'd never seen him as good-tempered as he had been recently , or as nervously loquacious . |
| 25 | I was petrified ; I 'd never seen him like this . |
| 26 | I 'd never seen him so happy . |
| 27 | I 'd never seen him before in my life ! |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd never seen him before . |
| 29 | That was a bit embarrassing — I 'd never seen him blush before — so I decided to have a joke . |
| 30 | I 'd never seen him in anything as soft-looking , as human as the pair of scruffy trousers , open-necked shirt and dressing-gown he wore then . |