Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , please have Red Sixteen sent for , so that I may inform him of my decision . ’ |
| 2 | If we can not guess Jacob 's motives , the storyteller makes them plain : ‘ I may appease him with the present that goes before me , and afterwards I shall see his face ; perhaps he will accept me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The story is that there 's an irresponsible , bored lunatic in Deptford , and I ought to keep him in a cage until I need him . ’ |
| 4 | Now , I must welcome him at the door . |
| 5 | ‘ I have to go , so I must leave him in your hands . |
| 6 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
| 7 | We had no sooner got out of the supermarket 's doors than the wee imp said he was tired and I must carry him to the car . |
| 8 | I must regard him as … an ally ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He 's a professional photographer — I must pay him for his work ! ’ |
| 10 | I must have him near me ! ’ |
| 11 | Roberton has taken what can best be described as an artistic look at this subject and I must compliment him on his approach because it provides a valuable visual record of what can never be again . |
| 12 | I must get him alongside this time , he thought . |
| 13 | Yet it is impossible I should love him for his vices all ugly him over . |
| 14 | I should hit him across the back of the neck like a rabbit . |
| 15 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE is a man , it is inevitable that eventually I should ask him about wanking . |
| 16 | Thinking that maybe this man was the right man , that maybe it was him I should ask him for directions , him who would take me home or wherever it was I was trying to get to . |
| 17 | Perhaps , thought Robert , I should sentence him to death . |
| 18 | I should describe him as an innocent . |
| 19 | Or , if someone came to me with arthritis of the fingers , I might ask him to ‘ think of your fingers lengthening ’ . |
| 20 | I thought I might hit him with it and knock him out , if I did it at just the right moment . |
| 21 | I might phone him in the morning |
| 22 | No , I might know him by sight , but er I ca n't think of him |
| 23 | So I 'll hold him to his word . ’ |
| 24 | Well , I can tell you something ; I 'm on my own in this house from now on and I shall see to her bathing , and should he attempt to stop me , I 've told him what I 'll do ; I 'll brain him with the first thing I get my hands on . |
| 25 | Then I 'll leave him in your custody . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah and I 'll set him on you if you start with me . |
| 27 | I 'll treat him as someone who needs all my sympathy and understanding . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll supervise him in the clinic for an hour or two . |
| 29 | I 'll be at ringside , I 'll embarrass him into fighting me . |
| 30 | One day ; Jacko promised himself , one day I 'll tap him on the head and wall him up in a brick kiln . |