Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd invited me to a supper dance after the show on Christmas Eve . ’ |
| 2 | Whatever it was , he 'd served me with his final invoice and I 'd paid it in full . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd struck me as a very kind , caring man , so I rang him and found myself pouring my heart out . ’ |
| 4 | My father brought me up — he 'd trained me to be the nicest kind of boy , tough , self-reliant . |
| 5 | Once he 'd introduced me to the Princess , he never said another word . ’ |
| 6 | There was no answer to that , so I sighed heavily , and said , " Oh , all right , " as if he 'd bullied me into it . |
| 7 | He knew I needed the money and he knew he 'd got me for for a he 'd have got me up at six o'clock in the morning if he 'd have needed me . |
| 8 | But at least he did n't spot that until he 'd got me on the committee . ’ |
| 9 | That was nice of Nevil , he 'd provided me with a cover story — I was supposed to look as if I 'd been mugged . |
| 10 | But he liked gripped me on the arm and then his hand would appear from nowhere during the concert , he like kind of rubbed my arm and are you alright ? |
| 11 | He would later swear that he had cautioned me about this the previous night . |
| 12 | Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression . |
| 13 | Matilda later reported that as her father tore off her veil , he swore ‘ that he had destined me as a wife for Count Alan rather than for a community of nuns ’ . |
| 14 | While I was sitting there , sipping my glass of hot , sweet Indian tea , I was approached by a shifty-looking man who asked me whether I could help him ; he had seen me with my camera ; could I help him mend his ? |
| 15 | Had someone insisted he had seen me in Romorantin , or further afield , I should not have been able to confirm or deny the sighting . |
| 16 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 17 | He had asked me for a photograph of myself when I was young and I had told him to go around and get it from Mandy . |
| 18 | I sat on a committee chaired by Paul Fox , a big representative steering group for the Royal Television Society 's Biennial Cambridge Convention ( the only woman ) , which he had asked me to be on at that time . |
| 19 | He had asked me about my unusual name . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't go to Oxford or Yale but he would have a good education if he had joined me at Birkenhead Institute . ’ |
| 21 | I wondered if he thought Dana and I were about to tie the knot , or whether he was thinking of us individually — the latter , I think , because he had warned me against marriage once or twice before when I had shown what he regarded as too much interest in a woman friend . |
| 22 | I wanted to get back to myself and to my own work , to all that he had robbed me of — even my own name . |
| 23 | I was slumped against him , almost fainting , conscious only that he had led me behind a red-brick loggia , obviously so that we would be out of sight of the people in the main concourse while he dispatched me . |
| 24 | When I expressed my appreciation of the honour he had done me by inviting me to his coronation , he replied that as the eldest son of his trusted friend , to whom he owed so much , it was proper that I should be present . |
| 25 | Soon after he had taken me under his ample wing he had remarked , ‘ Think of me as the Brahmin of the Banal ! |
| 26 | He had taken me under his featherless wing to this extent , giving me lifts and sharing with me some of his unusual theories . |
| 27 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 28 | I encouraged the English boy to move in one evening after he had taken me to a pub , and I felt this urge to have a hold on all the different sides there were to London . |
| 29 | Once he had taken me to Brighton for the day . |
| 30 | Mrs Rosenbloom nearly always found out about it and she would be mad that he had taken me from my work with the children . |