Example sentences of "i [vb past] he [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs . |
| 2 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 3 | God knows why — I made him the same way I made the rest of you — but there it is . |
| 4 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 5 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 7 | So I found him a small house called Kirk o'Field , outside Edinburgh . |
| 8 | Actually , I found him a pleasant companion . |
| 9 | I found him a fascinating , knowledgeable and eclectic artist , someone who thinks deeply about his work and is not content simply to record the bare facts of the world in front of him . |
| 10 | At first I found him a difficult subject to interview because , to paraphrase Donne , when he had done he had not done , he still had more ; and I had to learn to give him at least five seconds , grace before moving on , because his afterthoughts were often gems . |
| 11 | I found him a clean scarf to hold over his face . |
| 12 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |
| 13 | During the night I visited him every three hours as my vet had told me that if his leg had broken completely it would n't be fair to leave him suffering . |
| 14 | Yes well I think I told him a wrong , you see , there were two there there are two ways of tackling it and I do n't think the way I told him is what they want for the examination purposes , at all ! |
| 15 | ‘ I told him a few home truths , but it was a waste of breath , there was nothing I could do . ’ |
| 16 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 17 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 18 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 19 | There was an elderly man about 80 sitting on a seat , so I showed him an old photograph , and he remembered the lady we were with . |
| 20 | I showed him the relevant page of my guide-book . |
| 21 | I admired him a great deal … ’ |
| 22 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 23 | Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever . |
| 24 | I loaned him the other $30 . |
| 25 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 26 | I bought him one Christmas years and oh hey , we were just married and I ordered him an extending ladder from the Co-op |
| 27 | I heard him a few times , he was very very entertaining , very entertaining , nice bloke really . |
| 28 | I was once a Member of Parliament and one day in the chamber at Westminster , a Puritan , a lozenge of sanctified humility , got up from his arse and roared at me because I called him a blackened turd . |
| 29 | But once , to test this , when I offered him a smoky bacon crisp and said , as he crunched greedily into it , ‘ I did n't know you liked smoky bacon , ’ he sprinted into the bathroom and washed out his mouth with soap , screaming from his frothing lips that he would burn in hell . ) |
| 30 | Celtic manager Liam Brady said : ‘ I offered him an improved contract , but the player wants to move south . |