Example sentences of "he [verb] i was " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be blunt I was ready to let him know I was aware how he was using the Post and where the money was going . ’ |
| 2 | I er I phoned him up to let him know I was going in and he 's not too far away you see so asked him if he 'd like to pop in so he did about half eleven . |
| 3 | I so wanted him to know I was hurt . |
| 4 | Wanting to make him feel I was hurt . |
| 5 | I let him see I was being very careful not to make any mistake with the .38 . |
| 6 | But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off . |
| 7 | I stroked him , he gave me a big lick , and I could see relief sweep over him knowing I was n't going to hit him . ’ |
| 8 | ( I have to say I was n't in the room with him thought I was working at the Daily Mail at the time . ) |
| 9 | ‘ Oo , that 'll be nice , ’ I lied , I did n't want him to think I was a sissy . |
| 10 | Actually I have been something of a clothesaholic recently , do n't tell Derek , but I have to put that fitted wardrobe under lock and key when he 's back and hope he does n't keek in through the louvres because I would n't want him to think I was extravagant . |
| 11 | I was even glad now I 'd had trouble with the M-16 ; did n't want him thinking I was too handy with weapons . |
| 12 | I was as quiet as I could be , but all the same , I ca n't help wondering if at some stage he realised I was on his heels . |
| 13 | ‘ Did he think I was all right ? ’ |
| 14 | Did he think I was drunk already ? |
| 15 | made me laugh cos we 'd gone up to house tonight , he said he was making a real effort to be good and to and he , when he got up to house today he goes I was doing a really gentlemanly thing and saying oh thank you for a really nice evening , I started laughing well what was I supposed to ? |
| 16 | I wondered what he wanted , so I did it ; and in the interval of the rehearsal he came and said he was suffering from nervous shock because the moment I started he realized I was doing exactly the contrary of all the things he had taught the orchestra . |
| 17 | The man who measured me — he had red hair , I remember — lingered over my inside leg and when he realized I was n't going to object , gave me a comprehensive fondling . |
| 18 | He never put me on a heavy job until at such times he thinks I was fit . |
| 19 | Little did he know I was referring to him , to his associates , and in particular , to that alliance of the devil : Hitler and Mussolini . |
| 20 | How did he know I was here ? |
| 21 | As I ran , I remember thinking stupid thoughts like : How did he know I was up here looking down ? |
| 22 | How did he know I was here ? |
| 23 | When he found I was a stranger , he explained that the houses were numbered at random ‘ in the old-fashioned way ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've heard so many stories about him and all the good he did , and my dad was delighted when he found I was working with Sarah because she was his granddaughter . ’ |
| 25 | He had been in trawlers and , when he found I was interested , told me a lot about fishing off Iceland and Spitzbergen . |
| 26 | First as scullery maid , then — when he found I was a vicar 's daughter — Tom put me upstairs . |
| 27 | He says I was horrified . |
| 28 | He says I was a puddler . |
| 29 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 30 | But he believed I was really on to something . ’ |