Example sentences of "i [vb past] his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wilhelm wo n't speak to me since I chucked his Filofax in the jacuzzi . |
| 2 | I announced his name at Reception , and the girl rang up the guy and said , ‘ Your taxi 's here … . ’ |
| 3 | I met his wife in the village shop and she was very concerned about him . ’ |
| 4 | And he he got he got my hand for five seconds and then I I got I got his hand for ten something like that . |
| 5 | I tried his office at four o'clock and then his house at five , without success . |
| 6 | I take full account of these defects in his evidence , but overall I found his experience of the likely care regimes introduced in cashes , in cases such as that of the plaintiff to be of assistance . |
| 7 | He was very concerned about his sexual prowess — and I found his attitude towards women crude and very thoughtless . ’ |
| 8 | I found his blend of assurance , diffidence and wit beguiling , and I have often wondered what he might have done had he been born free . |
| 9 | I caught his hoof in my hand , right up here . |
| 10 | Two days later , I approached his office in the NME 's bunker in Carnaby Street with a mixture of excitement and trepidation . |
| 11 | I thought it was better to put my own thing forward so I dismissed his comment by saying that his rude attack on me was like being savaged by a dead sheep — and that became famous . |
| 12 | I incurred his displeasure on one occasion , there was a young lady sat on the form in front , we had those , where you sat in pairs , on the iron sort of things . |
| 13 | I referred his valet to Miss Kenton , but this did not prevent M. Dupont snapping his fingers at me every few hours to say : ‘ Butler ! |
| 14 | When I mentioned his name in Hawaii an informant who asked to remain anonymous said : ‘ Johnny Boy Gomes is the meanest , heaviest dude on the whole of the North Shore . ’ |
| 15 | I recognised his shock of red hair and freckled face straightaway . |
| 16 | Brian added : ‘ I recognised his face off the telly , but did n't realise he was such a big noise . |
| 17 | Earlier in this tome I recalled his experiment with target finding , and remember the dateline — June 1940 , attacking a target near Rotterdam . |
| 18 | I played his record to death . |
| 19 | I felt up from thigh to hip , and leaned close where I judged his face to be , but never a breath or a sign of life . |
| 20 | ‘ I studied his work at university , ’ she replied , thinking that the story of a man condemned to death for murder after failing to show proper grief at his mother 's funeral was not the happiest choice in the present circumstances . |
| 21 | I noticed his concern for me , and I know he was concerned , but that might have been there all along . |
| 22 | I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician . |
| 23 | then I ripped his stool to shreds and then fucking you you admitted to me , it was you ! |
| 24 | He looked offended but I guessed his idea of discretion was swapping his length of lead pipe for a rubber truncheon . |
| 25 | I opened his razor in the bathroom to rub the powered residue of his beard in my fingers , and wondered if it was still growing on his dead face . |
| 26 | I began his case with Nat . |
| 27 | I declined his offer of another brandy , made my excuses , and thanking him for his hospitality I left by the back door . |
| 28 | I enjoyed his excitement with politics . |
| 29 | I followed his gaze down the hallway to where a Kawasaki was parked on a spread-out copy of the Evening Standard . |
| 30 | I followed his gesture over the buried walls , across the narrow roadway between the ploughed-out snow dunes to where the fell rose steeply in a sweep of broken white to join the leaden sky . |