Example sentences of "his [noun] [conj] i [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 2 | He teaches me one of his songs and I sing it while he plays the guitar . |
| 3 | If I may my Lord there is an issue that was raised in my learned friends reply er which er was a new point er and where I do take issue with him and this concerns the issue of the relevance of the directive here the , the issue relating to er whether or not the er Lloyd 's Act and the society have got any relevance in respect of the directive , his submission as I understood it , was that under article one , eight , nine the directive only addressed itself to states , to the British Government and that therefore the reliance on the directive by the society and in relation to the Lloyds Act was er a misconceived er reliance . |
| 4 | And there 's his visitors but I mean it was |
| 5 | I ran downstairs to the phone , hearing my father coming to the door of his room as I passed it . |
| 6 | I zipped back along the M20 , letting Armstrong have his head as I thought it made a nice change for him not to plod through heavy traffic at ten miles an hour . |
| 7 | I felt something hard in his pocket and I took it out … it was the box with the ring in it ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I have known Alain all his life and I find it impossible to believe that he would commit suicide . |
| 9 | That 's just like my dad — he 's always on about what a struggle he had in the days of his youth and I get it all too easy . |
| 10 | My brother reckons it was Beeney 's fault for not coming off his line but I reckon it was the two centre halfs again . |