Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where else — where he goes I go . |
| 2 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 3 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 4 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |
| 5 | I felt that he thought I wanted to run the last leg for the glory . |
| 6 | It was not until Aunt Kit rang me up , three days later , and abused me for ten minutes between tearing bouts of coughing , saying that I had hurt ‘ poor Lil ’ quite unbearably , that he said I had been wrong to write it . |
| 7 | I think that a little bit apprehensive on things like that , and course when he saw Tony asked whether ga , whether he could go and Tony said no , I 'm sorry Doc but that he said I 've got my ponies and things there and I do n't want people shooting there ! |
| 8 | Would you believe that he said I 've got to work on the aeroplane this week , I 've got the week off , I 've got to work on the aeroplane , I , you know , I shall be alright , down the airfield , er on the Wednesday he arrived to see how we were getting on , complaining like made because he had n't been able to find where the cottage was , I said but I 'd left you a detailed map , |
| 9 | so I er he said er no he said , it 's not that he said I do n't like people to tell me you 've got to do overtime today , he said , I like to be asked ! |
| 10 | It could be that he felt I represented authority or the establishment in some way , or perhaps I was just convenient |
| 11 | Finally he got so used to me calling that he asked me to come down and give them a hand fixing it up . |
| 12 | in the marriage relationship it 's not just that he says I have taken you , and all that you have now is mine , I take your debt and I discharge it fully , your debt of holiness to God , your debt of righteousness to God , he says I take it and I pay that price in full ! |
| 13 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 14 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 15 | That he wished me to feel . |
| 16 | ‘ The less you respond to him the more he tries to get to you — I know I can be a bit intense so it 's really good that he taught me to have fun at work and loosen up . ’ |
| 17 | I reminded myself that he paid me to teach Adèle , nothing more , and that no other relationship could exist between us . |
| 18 | But to do him justice , the Prime Minister never gave me any impression that he wanted me to succeed him … . |
| 19 | I do n't know whether it was that he wanted me to see my ‘ virtue ’ triumph over his ‘ vice ’ , or something subtler , that sometimes losing is winning . |
| 20 | Dad always said that he wanted me to seize all the opportunities that he had missed . |
| 21 | I had the strange impression that he wanted me to believe he was death ; that at any moment the leathery old skin and the eyes would fall , and I should find myself the guest of a skeleton . |
| 22 | He brought out a list of thirteen Arab properties that he wanted me to buy and then resell to the Jews . |
| 23 | He thinks that he can lure me into making a statement that will have him attempting to give a poor man 's reading of ’ Erskine May ’ and saying that he wants me to lay the document before the House . |
| 24 | For Friend I would — if I only knew what it was that he wants me to do or be . |
| 25 | I think I knew him better than he thought I did . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | My dad did n't like to beat me , so he made me join him . ’ |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | So he said alright so he come in and had his dinner so he said I said we ought to be going this week for a ride out instead of last week . |
| 30 | 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 ? |