Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour . |
| 2 | That 's why I asked for him rather than his partner who is , so I 've been told , both charming and susceptible . ’ |
| 3 | Then I asked of him concerning the suffering . |
| 4 | I gazed at him as though intent |
| 5 | I gazed at him beseechingly . |
| 6 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 7 | the main point that I made to him was that after such a superb beginning where , where they actually state how much rubbish we produce , there 's absolutely no mention even though there 's space at the bottom there 's no mention of recycling at all . |
| 8 | My duty was to honour the promise I made to him ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The offer I made to him to buy his shares before all this unsavoury business began does not still stand . |
| 10 | Dad was still standing by the coffin and I whispered to him , ‘ Dad , can I have another look at my Granny ? ’ |
| 11 | Late one night I whispered to him that I was worried that the Yanks were taxing him too hard , that his lucid arguments and eloquence were being weakened by constant niggling at everything he said . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't worry , sir , ’ I whispered to him . |
| 13 | In the house next to where I lived with him was another married woman . |
| 14 | Only too , god if I lived with him first , I would never of married him , no , no , no way |
| 15 | This is clear from words which Mercadier himself dictated in 1196 : " I fought for him strenuously and loyally . |
| 16 | Appalled , I fought against him , pressing myself back , making my body leaden . |
| 17 | And I agreed with him . |
| 18 | I agreed with him . |
| 19 | I agreed with him , even if Posh Porky had won a scholarship to some place called St Paul 's , which in any case was miles away in Hammersmith . |
| 20 | But with those grown to man 's estate , I think he fails ; he failed with me , or to put it more correctly , I failed with him . |
| 21 | I was so surprised that I involuntarily pulled up slightly and I passed over him before I could get him in my gunsight again . |
| 22 | I passed by him , |
| 23 | So I rode with him to his castle in Dunbar , and stayed there two weeks . |
| 24 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
| 25 | When you told me that Stapleton had owned a school in the north of England , I checked on him and where he had come from . |
| 26 | ‘ At the time I got to him there were about four other people with him just trying to resuscitate him , giving him cardiac massage . |
| 27 | Once I got into him , then I started listening to Johnny Winter , Brian May , Ritchie Blackmore … |
| 28 | Which is what the impression I got about him , he was n't really sure himself . |
| 29 | He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie . |
| 30 | The impression I got of him was that he was the world 's most cautious man ( which squares ill with his later reckless behaviour ) ; that he was a man who said nothing ; who had carefully devised a plan of life which rendered the use of words unnecessary except in an emergency such as fire or accident . |