Example sentences of "he [vb past] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realised I had finally caught him … |
| 2 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 3 | We argued about it but in the end he agreed I had to tell the Josephs . |
| 4 | But he got me started ; the curiosity . ’ |
| 5 | As he approached I felt a pang of commiseration . |
| 6 | Some of the words he used I had never heard of — and I am not unfamiliar with words — but he savoured them , rolled them over his tongue and finally ejected them into his speech with a delight at their novelty , their colour and their music . |
| 7 | And er he er he used I used Mother used to send me with the tea to the to the church to the churchyard to father . |
| 8 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 9 | And when he came I said what are you doing here ? this is Wednesday . |
| 10 | She lay in her room and waited for him , and when he came I did not listen , but when he left I heard . |
| 11 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 12 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 13 | ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him . |
| 14 | And then he guessed I did n't want to start with them . |
| 15 | Imagine the horror on my beloved 's face when he discovered I had in fact flung in the rubbish his much prized and read collection of Guitarist magazines ! |
| 16 | I was all set to attend his mother 's barbecue , but then he discovered I had an assignment and refused to let me cancel . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ When he discovered I wanted to be an actor he felt deeply responsible and thought I must be stopped . ’ |
| 18 | And the names he called me turned the air blue ! |
| 19 | While he talked I sank back gratefully with my duty-free . |
| 20 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |
| 21 | In the bar , I saw Mr Hobbs looking at me : I wondered if he thought me deranged . |
| 22 | ‘ I am not what you think I am , ’ and I asked him what he thought I believed him to be . |
| 23 | ’ . Initially I was puzzled , until I realized he thought I had cut off my shirt sleeves , for in his force ( noted for its disciplined enforcement of a correct uniform presentation ) , all uniform shirts had long sleeves . |
| 24 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 25 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 26 | He thought I had been economical with the truth . |
| 27 | On 24 February 1947 , he wrote me an interim letter in which he said he thought I had tended to ‘ overwhelm the reader by a tendency to say too much at once ’ , and that the material might need some reorganization . |
| 28 | And he would n't let me go at nine o'clock if he thought I had n't have been knackered and ready to fall down you know . |
| 29 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |
| 30 | He said he thought I had developed a very strong activity programme , and that my rapport with the guests was incredible . |