Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 2 | and I tried all weekend trying to get only there from five to seven , and I got him after five o'clock on Tuesday |
| 3 | And I respect him for that . |
| 4 | And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter . |
| 5 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
| 6 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 7 | My sister and I put him to good use . |
| 8 | Roughly , those over thirty-five , and I put him in that group , reacted with a mixture of impatience , embarrassment , and guilt . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend has chosen a particularly important subject for today 's debate , and I congratulate him on that . |
| 10 | I did my best to shepherd the animal out of the room but he did n't seem to know the meaning of obedience and I chased him in vain . |
| 11 | but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold |
| 12 | I w , but I liked him in that one on a Friday night . |
| 13 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 14 | When I questioned him about this , he replied enigmatically that certain rock formations which had existed when they had arrived , had since disappeared and that he could swear that the rocks in some places had moved closer together . |
| 15 | When I press him for more names he suddenly gets the deer-caught-in-the-headlights look , and , deciding he 's already revealed too much , replies , ‘ Ah , just people . ’ |
| 16 | richly into , for I knew him by these things . |