Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Mackerel , Ron ! " he whispered to me on the bridge . |
| 2 | He beamed on me like an indulgent father promising a marvellous present off the Christmas tree . |
| 3 | He winked at me with a slight shake of his head . |
| 4 | " He thinks of me as such . " |
| 5 | ‘ But he thinks of me as a child , someone too unsophisticated and inexperienced for him . ’ |
| 6 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 7 | He read to me from Brendan Behan 's The Borstal Boy . |
| 8 | He looks at me as if I am crazy , and watches a grateful cat dragging the carcass to a safe distance with disapproval . |
| 9 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 10 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 11 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 12 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 13 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 14 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 15 | He stands above me on his knuckles like a gorilla , and peers at me curiously . |
| 16 | He referred to me as his ‘ Princess ’ and I referred to him as ‘ the Prince ’ ! |
| 17 | Yeah he mentioned to me about a month ago well I think it was at Christmas , it was probably at Christmas time |
| 18 | ‘ We 're not going to pay skilled workers $18 an hour to clean phone booth ’ , he says to me in an aggressive tone of voice . |
| 19 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 20 | Later that afternoon he came to me with some of my translations from the index cards . |
| 21 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 22 | He came to me for stuff to forget all that . |
| 23 | I was on the board of the bank then , and he came to me for advice about a takeover bid for his company . |
| 24 | ‘ He came to me for help and those men murdered him ! |
| 25 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 26 | ‘ He came to me from a very reliable source . ’ |
| 27 | The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds . |
| 28 | And then when I fell and was trying to get up , he came at me with a knife and that 's when you opened the door and — Oh , Mamma ! ’ |
| 29 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 30 | Cherry said : ‘ He came at me like a man possessed . |