Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] he [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 2 | There was an elderly man about 80 sitting on a seat , so I showed him an old photograph , and he remembered the lady we were with . |
| 3 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 4 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 5 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 6 | I bought him one Christmas years and oh hey , we were just married and I ordered him an extending ladder from the Co-op |
| 7 | At only 18 , Dundas will be seeing things through young and excited eyes and I wish him the best . |
| 8 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 9 | And I give him the whole book what lists names and numbers and what not . |
| 10 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 11 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 12 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 13 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 14 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 15 | Micky Danby is a pratt and I owe him a few scores meself . ’ |
| 16 | " Hell buy ten grand 's worth of … ( an electronics company ) , if I tell him the latest profit figures . |
| 17 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 18 | I was once a Member of Parliament and one day in the chamber at Westminster , a Puritan , a lozenge of sanctified humility , got up from his arse and roared at me because I called him a blackened turd . |
| 19 | Yeah , only I want him to try these on you see because I bought him a new pair yesterday |
| 20 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 21 | But once , to test this , when I offered him a smoky bacon crisp and said , as he crunched greedily into it , ‘ I did n't know you liked smoky bacon , ’ he sprinted into the bathroom and washed out his mouth with soap , screaming from his frothing lips that he would burn in hell . ) |
| 22 | when I visit him a second time he did n't turn up at all |
| 23 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs . |
| 24 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |