Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd also recorded Neil Kinnock 's speech after his count and I managed to freeze the frame on the exact moment when she almost cried as he paid tribute to his wife for her dignity under the onslaught of the tabloid press . |
| 2 | ‘ That was because I came from the most stable period of his life and I made him feel secure . ’ |
| 3 | I think it was within a month or so of his departure that I received a phone call from a friend of mine at Grantham : " Look , for God 's sake let's get rid of this Dutch friend of yours , he 's a menace . " |
| 4 | He fumbled a packet from the pocket of his anorak and I lit one for him with the dashboard lighter . |
| 5 | Earlier today the Secretary of State chided me and said that in some way I was an advocate of his system because I used the example of refuse collection and its cost to show that his system was simple and that we were in agreement on it . |
| 6 | The parts of his work that I admired were , he assured me , those which were easiest to do ; the alterations I cautiously suggested would , he declared , only weaken the book . |
| 7 | Boy 's was white , and furred with close dark hair from the root of his cock to the perfect black , flat fan on his chest , and at the base of his spine like I said . |
| 8 | Your dad pays his share for me , comes out of his wages if I paid , it 's just extra on top of all that , if I was paying any |
| 9 | Mike Powell was handing over to me and in the general melee of the race he had run out of his box and I had run out of my lane , so we were disqualified twice ! |
| 10 | The er the honourable gentleman might well have seen a copy of the er the provisional report which has been prepared but that provisional report is er the same basis as the report er which was presented to er Westminster city council er and then we were n't talking er a difficulty of er two million pounds created , created as a direct result of government under funding of the police authority there , we were talking about the expropriation of millions of pounds to line the pockets and to further the political interests of his party and I did notice the honourable gentleman er vociferous in his condemnation of Westminster city council or any of the other tory controlled city councils . |
| 11 | One night I was so touched by yet another account of his plight that I said , without realising the full implications of what I was saying , that there was a spare bedroom in Mrs Smith 's house . |
| 12 | I ran downstairs to the phone , hearing my father coming to the door of his room as I passed it . |
| 13 | It was only as I rapped on the open door of his office that I realized the plan was upside down . |
| 14 | The students I talked to here were Bryony Langworth who had designed an attractive coffee and tea service ; Christina Kirk , whose glass I admired ; Steven Keegan who had done a series of animal sculptures , one of which he sold to Dame Mary Soames ; Julie Sellars whose water sculpture for Shaftesbury Avenue 1990 looked most attractive ; Theresa Czyzewicz whose jewellery entailed the finest workmanship and was very pretty ; Clive van Heerden who was in a wheelchair near his exhibition as I arrived . |
| 15 | I was walking and he was with his mum and I looked up cos I know what his mum looks like and he was walking with his mum . |
| 16 | Well I was having an affair with his wife and I loved her so much I wanted to marry her , I wanted his land and his money , so I thought if he was out of the way it would be easier to get what I wanted and of course it was . |
| 17 | But he admitted : ‘ I could n't stay with his pace and I had to get away and look after myself . ’ |
| 18 | Benjamin nudged me with his knee so I looked away . |
| 19 | He almost pranced along the passage with his pet and I hoped fervently that I would not see them in there again . |
| 20 | Tony , most unusually , was already up and hard at work with his camera when I emerged to sniff the morning air . |
| 21 | A young man wearing a yarmulka skullcap and sitting astride a roaring tractor wiped his brow with his arm when I asked for the location of Um Al-Farajh . |
| 22 | I was going to tell him what he could do with his job but I thought better of it an' I took my cards all polite like . |
| 23 | Then your Inspector took it into his head that I 'd done it . |
| 24 | Shep , almost on his knees , tail tucked well in , shot back into his kennel and I turned toward the farmhouse to wash my hands , |
| 25 | Malleson carried my things down to the other block under his greatcoat and I followed him down the path about twenty yards behind . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ Sammy took me under his wing when I came into the Northern Ireland team . |
| 27 | He 'd been glaring and smashing down glasses on the table and muttering under his breath and I wondered what on earth I 'd done to make him so disturbed , and then I realised I had n't done anything . |
| 28 | Well it 's just erm ah I do n't know , I mean there 's there 's certain things I mean , it it 's like this maths I mean , I I spoke to her erm and she said yes Lee had come on and everything in his maths and I said we the thing is , I said , knowing Lee has difficulty in in th l in the high level maths , yes you do n't want to drop him , but surely I said I 'm willing to help in my spare time , Lee 's willing to do it and I said ca n't you show Lee I said I 'm not I was n't trying to tell her |
| 29 | Also I could hear irony in his tone and I thought that for some reason he was very annoyed indeed . |
| 30 | There was nothing in his wallet when I found him . ’ |