Example sentences of "he [vb past] [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 read to me from Brendan Behan 's The Borstal Boy . |
| 5 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 6 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 7 | He referred to me as his ‘ Princess ’ and I referred to him as ‘ the Prince ’ ! |
| 8 | Yeah he mentioned to me about a month ago well I think it was at Christmas , it was probably at Christmas time |
| 9 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 10 | Later that afternoon he came to me with some of my translations from the index cards . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He came to me for stuff to forget all that . |
| 13 | I was on the board of the bank then , and he came to me for advice about a takeover bid for his company . |
| 14 | ‘ He came to me for help and those men murdered him ! |
| 15 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 16 | ‘ He came to me from a very reliable source . ’ |
| 17 | The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds . |
| 18 | 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 ! ’ |
| 19 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 20 | Cherry said : ‘ He came at me like a man possessed . |
| 21 | He came after me with his arms wide , still dazzled and dazzling in his private powerful light ; those pale jeans already crumbling for want of their accustomed humidity . |
| 22 | He squinted at me through his spectacles . |
| 23 | He seemed to me to be showing diminishing interest in the enquiry , turning his tidily brushed head away to look out of the window instead . |
| 24 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 25 | When he turned towards me at Dun Laoghaire , he looked the complete tearaway . |
| 26 | He turned on me with one of his nastiest looks . |
| 27 | He turned on me like a snake . |
| 28 | He turned to me with a pair of calipers in his hand . |
| 29 | He turned to me in dumbfounded fury . |
| 30 | And when he turned to me before leaving he appeared to be still in a state of shock . |