Example sentences of "he [vb past] i [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He prodded me playfully in the chest . |
| 2 | The last time I 'd made for the bog he 'd broken my back when he caught me straight between the shoulder blades with a loaf of bread . |
| 3 | He grilled me severely about the attitude and background of the character , the place he would occupy in the programme , his point of view , and innumerable other aspects of Byron which I had not yet thought about . ’ |
| 4 | He told me immediately after the Monaghan game : ‘ If you talk about winning championships then you talk about consistency , you talk about commitment , you talk about ability — you must produce all those things over the full 90 minutes . |
| 5 | The secret of public speaking , he told me early in the campaign , is to address your audience right between the eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ Psst — Jack , ’ I hissed as he joined me damply in the breeze-filled tent . |
| 7 | ‘ I am surprised , too , ’ Holmes said , as he shook me warmly by the hand . |
| 8 | He served me well in the attack on the T'ang 's Plantations . ’ |
| 9 | After tea , he called me closer to the fire , while Adèle played with Mrs Fairfax . |
| 10 | Then when I told him that it takes a man to make a man , he hit me right across the face . |
| 11 | Perhaps he understood what I was thinking , for he hit me hard on the face . |
| 12 | He took me straight to the Rembrandt and talked about it , without lowering his voice , and I had the smallness to be embarrassed because some other people there stared at us . |
| 13 | He sent me away with the assurance that I was not homosexual , and a grasp of the breathtaking logic of my sexual development was all I needed to gain the confidence to become a red-blooded , penis-toting , figure-of-eight-female-body-screwing heterosexual man . |
| 14 | He brought me home from the hospital . ’ |
| 15 | He expressed interest in the article for Leavis , which had been called ‘ Scrutiny of Modern Greats ’ , and he questioned me closely about the general intellectual mood at Oxford . |
| 16 | Why , once he looked me right in the face and sneered . |
| 17 | And then he looked me straight in the face , ‘ One day , soon , Nicky , God 's spirit is going to deal with you . |
| 18 | He struck me hard across the mouth so that my head cracked back against the bathroom wall . |
| 19 | He shot me again in the right-hand side of my body . ’ |
| 20 | We got up , he pushed me roughly towards the door , keeping a tight hold of me . |
| 21 | He patted me gently on the shoulder . |
| 22 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |