Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [verb] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had saved his country from attack by Blefuscan warships , he preferred to remember my refusal . |
| 2 | In the end the man became so nervous that I had to hold his arm and literally steer him through the crowd to the right spot . |
| 3 | I 'm going to write a book on , um , the influence of structuralism on feminist literary criticism , and I 'd asked his advice . ’ |
| 4 | I never saw the mail robber , though Tom played with his children — and caught nits from them , to Nonni 's horror — and I got to know his sister , Elsie : a thin woman with stiff , blonde hair who was never without a cigarette stuck to the corner of her mouth . |
| 5 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 6 | He seemed a really pleasant , friendly man , and I had admired his running before . |
| 7 | He and I had talked long into the tropical nights and I had enjoyed his company , and I would have liked to have spent more time with Senator Crowninshield , but three months ? |
| 8 | Dad and I finished packing his things . |
| 9 | When the lights came up and I turned to ask his reactions , I found him sitting speechless , tears coursing down his cheeks . |
| 10 | It was too absurd — the invitation , then this curt dismissal , as if I had exhausted his patience . |
| 11 | I did n't know where Bill Stubbly lived , but I did know his routine and he seemed a far better bet than approaching Nevil direct . |
| 12 | Because of what he 'd said and because I 'd asked his wife who he was . |
| 13 | Nicola had made me go and see if he was okay and I said yes he was , because I 'd seen his eye move and I left him there . |
| 14 | It was some years since I had seen his signature . |
| 15 | But when I had recognized his weakness — his desire to join a club called Genius — I knew I had him . |
| 16 | I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea . |
| 17 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |