Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I tell him about the search for her , and he sits and listens . |
| 2 | I could n't think of a good reason why not so I ushered him towards the stairs and told him I lived in Flat 3 . |
| 3 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 4 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 5 | Whenever I meet him in the village , ’ he said bitterly , ‘ which is not very often , I 'm glad to say , he walks right past me without even raisin' his cap in respect … ’ |
| 6 | Later I heard him in the bathroom . ’ |
| 7 | I met him at Aunt Alicia 's because he rented half the house , and then I helped him with the horses . |
| 8 | And then I lost him among the boulders and small trees that marked the course of the torrent . |
| 9 | Sometimes I joined him in the school room . |
| 10 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 11 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 12 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 13 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 14 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 15 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well , here we are , ’ Andy says , sitting forward and slapping his hands on his knees , then taking the J when I tap him on the elbow . |
| 17 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 18 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 19 | The man 's cheek is cut from where I caught him with the chain . |
| 20 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |