Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed unconcerned at letting me loose on his half-share investment and I tried telling myself that ahead lay merely a quick pop over three undemanding obstacles , not the first searching test of my chances of racing . |
| 2 | So I hope it is n't just sentimentality that makes me baulk at his drastic solution . |
| 3 | The right hon. Gentleman said that the self-government of this country is in peril and , while I disagree with his domestic politics , he is right to point that out . |
| 4 | I disapproved of his grey suede shoes , his floppy bow tie and the excessive width of his trousers : he struck me as flaccid and petulant and I disliked him on sight . |
| 5 | The new shithouse clerk , a small , wiry Liverpudlian , was taking his new appointment very seriously when I arrived at his canvasstructured place of work . |
| 6 | Travis queried , and , for the first time in an age , he smiled as he tacked on , ‘ Now that you mention it , I seem to remember now reading something about Massingham 's taking over Vasey 's , but Naylor 's always got his finger in some negotiation , so the Vasey deal would have gone out of my head while I read about his next business venture . ’ |
| 7 | And as I marvelled at his breathtaking skiing the cost of a coffee in the Nederhutte mountain restaurant was not top of my concerns . |
| 8 | I know of his close interest in that matter . |
| 9 | If I walked across his unmarked grave , I 'd know it was him buried under the ground . ’ |
| 10 | I smile at his tremulous respect mixed with greediness . |
| 11 | But to me as I struggled with his detoxifying diet , he was a disembodied , stern sounding voice , a god who had handed down the law . |
| 12 | I looked at his young wife , Dawn , with her four young children visiting Salisbury for the week-end . |
| 13 | And I looked at his sad face . |
| 14 | I looked at his plastered leg . |
| 15 | Princess Ashraf later wrote that as Carter spoke , " I looked at his pale face . |
| 16 | As I looked at his stern face , I knew I could go anywhere in the world with him as a colleague , but I could never lose my freedom by marrying him . |
| 17 | I looked into his clenched face and said , |
| 18 | As I left ( clutching a crisp lettuce and firm , shining tomatoes ) , I thought about his previous job . |
| 19 | On the first night of Camelot on Broadway , on December 3rd , 1960 , I went into his crowded dressing room after the performance and he greeted me with : ‘ Well , I showed you , did n't I ? ’ |
| 20 | I took in his frightened expression and could just faintly hear his reply : ‘ Non è vero ’ ‘ It is n't true . ’ |
| 21 | I fell under his freezing spell , obeying all his commands without thinking . |
| 22 | At a launch of a new diagnostic technique the Chief Executive of a hi-tech company in the medical field seeks your advice on two public relations programmes : I Aimed at his own company 's staff : 230 of them at two factories 65 miles apart and at an R and D facility with 38 senior staff . |
| 23 | I call for his immediate resignation and the transfer of power to a collective body , the Council of the Federation … |
| 24 | Had I been an IRA man , I could have pulled out my little Luger and shot him dead — a thought so unnerving that the next day I wrote to his private secretary to suggest improved security . |
| 25 | He did not share my passion for Frank O'Hara , Robert Duncan , Denise Levertov ( whom I had met in London and Paris ) , James Merrill and the early Pound ; nor did I agree with his high estimate of Robert Lowell , Howard Nemerov and T.S . |
| 26 | Sooner or later there 'll be a chance ( if he does n't let me go of his own accord ) to run for it . |
| 27 | To get to the end of my story first , let me point to his last winter 's feat of equally Laurie O'Hara 's O55 Wimbledon cross-country record . |
| 28 | There was something cabalistic about the bandy legs of a road sweeper , who stood with his back to me leaning on his outstretched broom as on a catamaran while he lit his pipe … . |