Example sentences of "and [conj] i [verb] him [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He should be leaving about now , and if I know him he 'll have left me to pay his hotel bill . |
| 2 | And if I ring him we get cut off in the middle of the call . ’ |
| 3 | He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin . |
| 4 | And when I asked him what he meant , he said irritably , ‘ Oh , do n't be more stupid than you need be . |
| 5 | And when I asked him what would happen if it got known he just smiled and said I could talk if I wanted to . |
| 6 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 7 | He asked whose side I was on , and when I told him I was strongly opposed to Bodyline he said he thought it would be better if I did not go on with it . |
| 8 | She recalls that she met her ex-husband , cameraman Danny Mindel , on a plane going to the Seychelles and , after chatting for ages , asked if she could kiss him : ‘ And when I kissed him I knew I was going to marry him . ’ |
| 9 | And when I gave him what he wanted , he gave me what I wanted . |
| 10 | You are very kind to have thought of him and when I gave him your kiss he gave me a hundred in return to pass on to you believing I could and indeed I wish he was correct in his supposition . |
| 11 | He was obviously destined for the professional ranks and as I watched him I could see why . |
| 12 | It was most unusual to see Taff down like this and as I gave him my condolences I was thinking that the sadness was beginning to reach almost everyone . |