Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a marvellous ride all the way round and he just took me into the lead . |
| 2 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 3 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 4 | I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’ |
| 5 | He also showed me round the House of Commons . |
| 6 | you see , and he was , he , he probably brought me into the world , you see but , er you see , and Mrs erm , you see , she was married to Doctor and he used to come up to see my father and we had a different door then door being that 's got a yale lock on now but he he 'd say , hello Frank , you know always so you got , oh he was so nice and it was such a shame that he died |
| 7 | He later told me of the adventure he had walking round the high netting accompanied by an airman on the other side of the wire . |
| 8 | He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up . |
| 9 | Charlie showed no obvious signs of friendship as he immediately caught me on the chin . |
| 10 | He virtually threw me on the delivery bed and the midwife yanked down my trousers — and there was the baby , with his head and a hand out , gazing at us . |
| 11 | He either kicked me under the table or something and we were sitting across from each other … just a foot or two , and he passed it over , directed me to the top paragraph and had an expression of this was a surprising entry . |
| 12 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |