Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a red cloak I saw him go , His back was bent , his step was slow , And as he laboured through the cold He seemed a hundred winters old . |
| 2 | Once , when he was the centre of attention at the youth club I saw him do it again . |
| 3 | When Dad had eaten his tea I heard him ask Mum if she 'd kept the payments up on the insurance policy . |
| 4 | Oddly enough , later on in the Mess I heard him repeat part of the rollicking , but not my reply , to the station commander . |
| 5 | I was sitting in a row exactly in front of Harold Wilson and his party , and during the last interval I heard him ask his neighbour whether anyone would ‘ have seen these plays right through ’ . |
| 6 | Benjamin 's shoulders twitched and on one occasion I saw him shiver . |
| 7 | The only living composer I heard him praise was Stravinsky ; the others who met his approval were all dead . |
| 8 | By the week 's end the proctologist was saying that it had been the best goddamned vacation he had ever taken , and as we passed the bunkering moorings near McIllvanney 's yard I saw him take Ellen aside and I guessed he was offering her a job . |
| 9 | Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform . |
| 10 | Every time I heard him blast his horn I wanted to kill him . |
| 11 | After a long time I heard him get up and come over to the long wall , near to where I was sitting listlessly in the arm-chair . |
| 12 | With every step I saw him take Flew at his heel a puff of flake . |