Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kissed the rose , and that night , in bed , I placed it where he desired me to . |
| 2 | ‘ He escorted me to his lodgings , where he treated me with every kindness , and dried my clothes whilst I managed a few hours sleep . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Where else — where he goes I go . |
| 4 | And the situations I imagine ( where he forsakes me ) are real . |
| 5 | He 'd like the power and he 'd like knowing he had me where he wanted me . |
| 6 | He took me in his arms and carried me downstairs to the library , where he put me in front of the fire , and gave me a glass of wine . |
| 7 | Finding Alec Davidson was much easier than I thought although he surprised me by what he had become . |
| 8 | The police came within half an hour and the officer was sympathetic although he advised me not to expect the thieves to be caught . |
| 9 | Naturally , Eliot was pleased about my enthusiasm for Collingwood , for whom he had considerable regard ; but although he told me he liked the Essay on Philosophical Method , which had appeared in 1933 and concerning which I had attended Collingwood 's lecture-course in my first year , I could see that he was more interested in such works as A. E. Taylor 's Faith of a Moralist , or more directly theological works , such as those of Jacques Maritain . |
| 10 | well although he told me he 'd er , he 'd , well he 'd had a reasonable catch he 'd er , remember them , bring one up |
| 11 | I retained a friendship for George Brown , although he regarded me with rather dubious approval because of my omission to drink anything at any dinner party . |
| 12 | Immediately he lent me his support , his judgement and helped me find a publisher , putting me in touch with Jan Martens and the Fonds Mercator which publish admirable art books . |
| 13 | I think I knew him better than he thought I did . ’ |
| 14 | If Father were to hear them he 'd whip me out of that place much quicker than he pushed me in , I can tell you . |
| 15 | What would happen if I loved him more than he loved me , and if he were to cheat on me one day ? |
| 16 | He loved it more than anything , more than he loved me , more than he could ever love a child … |
| 17 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 18 | ‘ I told him I was training with Guisborough that evening , so he met me up there and a deal was sorted out . |
| 19 | My dad did n't like to beat me , so he made me join him . ’ |
| 20 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 21 | So I said , ‘ Look , I just do n't want it , ’ so he tells me not to be so clever . |
| 22 | ‘ In the top five per cent of his class , so he tells me . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ So he tells me . ’ |
| 24 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |
| 25 | driver for me on the phone , so he calls me up , oh we 've got load of them he said |
| 26 | Reverend thought oh yes he 'd be very very glad of you , so he said I 'd be prepared to visit the sick , I 'd do anything like that and he did in fact start doing some visiting , and among other people that he called upon was a person living in Road , not very far really from where I 'd been born and I knew the area well . |
| 27 | he said well so he said I 'll give you this one . |
| 28 | that he just received them like , about half an hour before Mike rang up , so he said I 've got to get me secretary to type them out and then we , I 'll send them to you and we 've got to sign 'em , then what happens from there ? |
| 29 | So he said erm I said to the woman I went to the court this morning so he said when you explain to me he said I 've got money in my pockets cos I borrowed it from dad tha he said I owed sixty two pound so he said I said to the woman in the court how can I pay this the sixty two pounds when you 've frozen my account ? |
| 30 | Yeah no he was just saying that head office they 'll dictate to them like anybody else so he said I 've got to have erm the mortgage up to date for a start before I can consider anything . |