Example sentences of "that i [vb past] him " in BNC.

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1 I was so surprised that I followed him without a word .
2 I loved Tom McMahon too — you must n't be thinking I did n't , that I cheated him , but it was a different sort of love .
3 That was the point that I heard him make in Brighton .
4 ‘ I was so terrified that I fought him all the way .
5 These recent watercolours , larger , bolder and stronger than his earlier work , pleased me so much when first I saw them that I offered him an exhibition at Abbot Hall .
6 Blair worked on the islands for a number of years and I confess that I envied him .
7 Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’
8 ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili .
9 I always felt that Basil was a very shy , warm hearted man with a special sort of honesty and I am glad that I knew him .
10 I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends .
11 ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’
12 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 . ’
13 He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange .
14 And , though I hate to admit it , the fact that I saw him differently was Sophie 's doing .
15 Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw .
16 I had tried hard to destroy all feelings of love for him , but now that I saw him again , I could not stop myself loving him .
17 Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago .
18 Beesley 's case offered corroboration : the hero of the Titanic was a blanket-forger and transvestite imposter ; how just and appropriate , therefore , that I fed him false cricket scores .
19 But I feel I should return just a moment to the matter of my father ; for it strikes me I may have given the impression earlier that I treated him rather bluntly over his declining abilities .
20 You must have realised that I resented him . ’
21 But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments .
22 Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man .
23 I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly .
24 It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job .
25 But I accidentally hit Jason full on the jaw so hard that I knocked him over .
26 He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him .
27 I think it fortunate that I met him as I am persuaded I can cure him of his disorder or turn the evil to good ’ .
28 Carson was such an affable chap that I persuaded him to agree with me ( and Alf ) to continue along progressive lines .
29 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 .
30 I know that sounds quite sad and it 's embarrassing that I copied him , but I ca n't help it because I thought it looked so great on him .
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