Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kissed the rose , and that night , in bed , I placed it where he desired me to . |
| 2 | ‘ He escorted me to his lodgings , where he treated me with every kindness , and dried my clothes whilst I managed a few hours sleep . ’ |
| 3 | He took me in his arms and carried me downstairs to the library , where he put me in front of the fire , and gave me a glass of wine . |
| 4 | Finding Alec Davidson was much easier than I thought although he surprised me by what he had become . |
| 5 | I retained a friendship for George Brown , although he regarded me with rather dubious approval because of my omission to drink anything at any dinner party . |
| 6 | ‘ When I was a kid , my Dad was into Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin , so he tainted me with all that , then I got into the punk thing when that was going down . |
| 7 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 8 | OK , so he paid me for my taxi . |
| 9 | Once he congratulated me on my gang . |
| 10 | And Kegan was old-womaning around until he drove me to agreeing to talk to the wretched people . |
| 11 | Wayne never found his rhythm on his serve and he did not get into the match until he broke me at 5–3 , but I did good enough to win , ’ said the 24-year-old 1991 Wimbledon champion . |
| 12 | If he shot me in your arms , I 'd die happy . ’ |
| 13 | And you had to get , get a bit of paper and you drew a straight line , straight line , see like that , and if he had two white legs you put a cross , two white see , if he had a long one , he had put a big cross , if he had a long , two long white leg , if he had me behind you put a cross . |
| 14 | So I got up immediately and said it would be the end of a beautiful friendship if he accused me of necrophilia ! |
| 15 | Maybe it was because he had me with him . |
| 16 | Some years later I was at dinner with Brian Huggett and he got up and said , ‘ I should n't be talking to this man because he robbed me of the British Open . |
| 17 | ‘ I looked after the vines here for Fabien 's sake , that 's all , because he asked me to . |
| 18 | Finally , it was because he wanted me to be part of his world of music . |
| 19 | We walked solemnly around Gloucester in and out of the Cathedral precincts while he told me about his childhood . |
| 20 | Until he 'd before he took me to hospital ! |
| 21 | ‘ You remember how angry Alain became when he saw me with that book ? ’ she said . |
| 22 | So , when he treated me like this , I laughed aloud . |
| 23 | But a friend put some perspective into it when he told me of a recent visit to the Half Moon , a venerable pub venue in Putney : ‘ There were all these posters on the wall of bands from 20 and 25 years ago , and I thought , ‘ Cor , they must be valuable . ’ |
| 24 | However , I can remember clearly my own alarm , bordering on terror , when he told me about the Butcher 's measuring rod . |
| 25 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
| 26 | One of the speakers that evening was Gordon Gissing , so I had no hesitation when he told me about his visit to a picturesque narrow ( metre ) gauge system in East Germany , and offered to give us a talk on it . |
| 27 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 28 | Can be proved by describing the duty being performed , e.g. ‘ I said to John Brown ‘ You are being arrested for conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace ’ and was just about to hold his arm and caution him when he struck me in the face with his left fist etc . ’ |
| 29 | When he poked , when he poked me in me arm and said |
| 30 | ‘ Old Amos botched me when he made me from his seed . |