Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] he [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 2 | I think my father 's authority was irrational because he expected me to have no other interests outside my schoolwork . |
| 3 | He 's an older man and maybe an easier since he had me galloping the best of my horses lame over you , Owen . |
| 4 | Lucker has elected not to do this as he tells me he would probably pass out . |
| 5 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 6 | He came racing towards me just as I got out , I had already shed my parachute in the aircraft to get out a little more schnell before he accosted me , I got the most bitter rollicking for leaving the aircraft outside his engineering hangar area . |
| 7 | I was experiencing something very like despair , which was not altogether relieved when he turned me towards him and said , " I 'd love you if you were as bald as a coot . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've heard so many stories about him and all the good he did , and my dad was delighted when he found I was working with Sarah because she was his granddaughter . ’ |
| 9 | He wore a rich robe so encrusted with precious metals and stones that I wondered if he could stand up under the weight And his eyes were tiny , wet and somehow avid as he looked me over — wholly ignoring Mala — from head to foot . |
| 10 | I think I knew him better than he thought I did . ’ |
| 11 | At the back of my mind , perhaps , was a kind of childish vanity : there is a lot of dull , humdrum work to be done in local politics and I felt Richard would not be impressed if he knew I was abandoning him three nights a week in order to address envelopes or collect jumble . |
| 12 | ‘ It was great when he asked me to join his band . |
| 13 | I intend to go on doing that as long as he wants me . |
| 14 | Well a as long as he knows I 'm looking for him . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've just gone all stupidly emotional because he touched me again ! ’ she whispered to herself . |
| 16 | What would happen if I loved him more than he loved me , and if he were to cheat on me one day ? |
| 17 | If he did tell me anything it would be a pack of lies , because obviously the secret would n't be a secret any more if he told me the truth , and he can feel , as I do , that with my increasing maturity he needs all the holds over me he can get ; I 'm not a child any more . |
| 18 | ‘ He told me that all his life he was such a shit , and he finally realized he could make someone as happy as he made me , ’ recalls Joey . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought he was sincere when he told me he wanted to stay in France . |
| 20 | I was withdrawn and sullen when he bade me farewell . |
| 21 | He , too , was being provocative , quite deliberately making it a clash of wills , but still smiling as he told me to get the bags into the Toyota . |
| 22 | ‘ But he wo n't be very pleased if he thinks I 've seen him lurking . |
| 23 | oh it 's gone , it 's gone from ninety seven to one five cos he got me one yesterday , he went to get that stuff yesterday , cos I spent what twenty pound eighteen pence yesterday |
| 24 | I was shocked when he told me the truth . |
| 25 | At first when he died I did n't know what to do with myself , I even thought … |
| 26 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 27 | I 've never been the same since he told me how he hated fey women . |
| 28 | When the little ones get big enough to come here , he 'll hate them same as he does me . |
| 29 | He 's got me in such a state that I 'm as useless as he says I am . " |
| 30 | His mouth dropped open when he saw me standing in front of him , carrying a gun . |