Example sentences of "[pron] did [adv] [verb] him " in BNC.

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1 So I did just ask him er just come to me right out of the blue when he was here one night .
2 But I did not love him now .
3 I did not love him , but I cried then .
4 My obligation to Harry is sacred for his father 's sake , even if I did not love him like my own .
5 I did not press him .
6 I did not remind him that it was I who had replaced the newspaper with mended panes and the sacking with curtains .
7 ‘ Felipe is just angry that Mitch touched me and that I did not repulse him quickly .
8 I did not want him to see me .
9 I did not want him to be alone with Otto .
10 So I came out immediately , as I did not want him to pull me out .
11 I was pleased that he could come , although I did not want him to discover anything about my horrible work .
12 ‘ No , I did not want him !
13 I always said yes , even if I was drained , because I did not want him to chuck the ball to someone else . ’
14 I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year .
15 Since I am a mild and humane man , I did not tell him that it was utterly hopeless , but as a matter of deference to him I presented his formula to George Elvin , who declined to have anything to do with it .
16 I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken .
17 I did not tell him I had actually spoken those words many miles away , at that exact moment on that night , because I could hardly understand how it happened myself .
18 I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying .
19 that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl .
20 I did not suck him dry !
21 I did not watch him all the way but looked for another target .
22 Although I rated Mr Smith quite high in terms of integrity , I did not regard him as having a superior intellect and throughout the negotiations with which I was concerned he remained blinded by a prejudiced belief that the only rule in Rhodesia which was tolerable or possible was white rule .
23 But I did not stop him coming back , and do not , I beg of you , ask me to try and explain that .
24 I just stared back at him as if I did not recognize him , then moved away out of sight behind another screen .
25 I , I did not show him
26 I did not fool him .
27 I did not meet him socially until 1975 when we were both invited as guest speakers to the annual dinner of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne division of the Royal Naval Reserves .
28 In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end .
29 I did not question him because I knew he would be unable to describe what and how he felt , even if he had been willing to do so .
30 Since I was not going to discuss the future with him , I did not ask him to elaborate , but I registered his disappointment and thought that , if that was how he felt , he was making it easier for me to leave him .
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