Example sentences of "he [vb past] i in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games . |
| 2 | He asked me in a very slow and serious voice , looking at me with solemn eyes . |
| 3 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 4 | ‘ He cast me in the role of a sort of footballing Dick Whittington , and took down the vases from the mantelpiece to represent my stepping-stones to fame , ’ Bastin recalls . |
| 5 | He approached me in the Limes Club in Sheffield and said if I signed with him , he would fill my book and raise my fee — a promise which he fulfilled . |
| 6 | ‘ He told me in a general way that he was American . |
| 7 | So he told me in the diner to which we resorted for coffee and blueberry pie . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 9 | He installed me in the base-camp , an old redbrick gardener 's cottage with roses climbing up the side , offered me the keys to the crew bus so that I could pick up something to eat in nearby Worksop , and even had the foresight to take a pint of milk from the warden 's fridge so that I 'd be able to make a cup of coffee in the morning . |
| 10 | He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way . |
| 11 | ‘ He threw me in a dungeon . ’ |
| 12 | He said yes Mrs well then he followed me in the kitchen , stood behind me and I thought what the hell 's he hanging about for , I 'm gon na take it to him and the , his son- in-law was there |
| 13 | He kissed me in the back of the car while we waited for the others , but nothing moved in me . |
| 14 | ‘ And he tried to put his tongue in my mouth and when he pulled me in the doorway he — he unfastened the front of his trousers . ’ |
| 15 | Sent memos all round , you know and he called me in the office that day , to say I 'm really disappointed in you , I said , what do you mean ? |
| 16 | He hit me in the face with the gun ; an inefficient , glancing blow with more chaotic anger than directed malice behind it ; I fell down , correspondingly , more because I felt I ought to than because I was actually knocked out . |
| 17 | Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see |
| 18 | My lady and gentleman took him out that night and he drank a lot of fizzy stuff and fell over — I 'm black and I do n't think he saw me in the darkness . |
| 19 | He looked me in the eye and said , ‘ Two more . ’ |
| 20 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Soon after that a different Man came by car and he put me in a carrier cage and took me into the darkness of a long journey , over bumpy roads , on to a ship , and into the most terrible place of all , an iron cage with obscured windows , which raced through the night clattering and clattering , a regular rhythm of metallic sound . |
| 22 | He put me in a play once . |
| 23 | When he 'd finished at the sink I came out and wound myself lovingly around his legs but he shut me in the kitchen . |
| 24 | He punched me in the head first , from the side . ’ |
| 25 | He punched me in the eye . |
| 26 | Can be proved by describing the duty being performed , e.g. ‘ I said to John Brown ‘ You are being arrested for conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace ’ and was just about to hold his arm and caution him when he struck me in the face with his left fist etc . ’ |
| 27 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 28 | So he left me in a stew of doubt . |
| 29 | He quoted me in the same paragraph , but somehow omitted some key words about the commitment of both Novell and USL to preserving the business model by which USL serves its licensees . |
| 30 | He sat me in an armchair , sorted through some scores , found the one he wanted ; began to play ; short , chirrupy little pieces , then some elaborately ornamented courantes and passacaglias . |