Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] he [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the course of that regression he told me his name , his trade ( he was a cloth merchant ) and the fact that he lived and worked in the Bristol area . |
| 2 | In support of this submission he referred me to Heaven v. Pender ( 1883 ) 11 Q.B.D. 503 and Le Lievre v. Gould [ 1893 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 3 | " He 's obviously gone some place he knows I would disapprove of — which probably means something involving the Irish sympathizers … " |
| 4 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |
| 5 | On another occasion he drove me back to my hotel and I had to make it very clear it was n't on . |
| 6 | cos Kenneth come up early on , he says it 's like this night he says I 'm not properly , ah right , I says I might I says were that like , I says , I says what time ? |
| 7 | my dad this morning he woke me up by pulling me up by the hair , bashing my face into the pillow a couple of times , I just looked at , then go , and I looked at him |
| 8 | Eddy himself lives in Oxford , and this morning he told me that the final piece of his Formula One jigsaw fell into place recently with a major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers , Seven Up . |
| 9 | All sorts of different people he said I would never ever buy any beans he said cos of this chappie who used to work they used to unless you change over the tin or something he used to spit in the tins . |
| 10 | Ah , look at the , look , just look at this letter he wrote me ! |
| 11 | At that time , University College had no fellow in mathematics , which was another reason he wanted me to do chemistry : I could try for a scholarship in natural science rather than in mathematics . |
| 12 | He said , well let's put it this way he said I can get into a Ford and start it without breaking any windows |
| 13 | But this time he knew I did n't mean it . |
| 14 | I was as quiet as I could be , but all the same , I ca n't help wondering if at some stage he realised I was on his heels . |
| 15 | He spoke publicly about the need for each state to work out its own solution and erm earlier in that year , in fact it 's nineteen fifty seven , I think I said fifty four before , er earlier in that year nineteen fifty seven er Eisenhower said in a speech in r in response to a hypothetical question he said I ca n't imagine any set of circumstances that would ever induce me to send federal troops into any state to enforce the orders of a federal court . |
| 16 | He never put me on a heavy job until at such times he thinks I was fit . |
| 17 | Giant-fiend of a hundred hands , with a shower of arrowy death-pangs he transpierced me , and then he became a wolf , and lay a-gnawing at my bones ! |
| 18 | Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was . |
| 19 | The following morning he told me what a wonderful night 's sleep it had given him and was fulsome in his praise of what he called his ‘ beautiful lady ’ . |
| 20 | The decision did not lie with him because a formal commission of inquiry had been set up , but the following morning he telephoned me to say that a UK observer would be welcome and , by the way , would we please send Eric Newton , then head of AIB engineering section , to the accident site to advise the commission on whether there had been a bomb or other explosive on the aircraft . |
| 21 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 22 | In My Early Life he says I had picked up a wide vocabulary and a liking for the feel of words fitting and falling into their places like pennies in the slot . |
| 23 | When I went first he took one out there and he took it out clean , but this one here , in actual fact he gave me a stitch , and when the stitch was n't in you could see the tooth protruding a bit . |
| 24 | Well we 're going to mum 's but Geoff said well I I hate them cos Bobby and Pam are going I think this year he said well if I get fed up doing that evening he said I 'll come home early . |
| 25 | That evening he rang me . |
| 26 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |
| 27 | now I 've got two little girls he said I hate to turn away knowing what he 'd done to the last little girl |
| 28 | Then looking at him again she said , ‘ He sometimes had a walking stick , and … and on that day he bought me a parasol . ’ |
| 29 | I have no exact idea how many times he hit me , but it must surely have been six or more . |
| 30 | He was right when he said the question I would have to answer most was ‘ When do we reach so and so ? ’ … and if I were a regular waiter he said I would know the answers , even though we 're thirty-five minutes earlier everywhere than the regular Canadian . ’ |