Example sentences of "[noun pl] and i [verb] he " in BNC.

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1 At only 18 , Dundas will be seeing things through young and excited eyes and I wish him the best .
2 He seemed to know a lot about female mysteries and I wanted him to explain .
3 ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’
4 Ken Clarke was my minister of roads and I remember him coming back on more than one occasion with steam coming out of his ears .
5 The lock sticks and I heard him turning his key .
6 I 'm very upfront about being happily married — I 've brought Nick into the office a few times and I mention him in conversation whenever it 's appropriate .
7 He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out !
8 On two occasions he joined large dinner parties designed to raise money for particular charities and I witnessed him reduced to slumping over the table on folded arms , where he remained comatose until gently removed at the end of the meal .
9 He finished packing up his newsletters and I followed him upstairs into the bar .
10 That is an important reform for my hon. Friend 's constituents and I congratulate him again on that victory .
11 Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers .
12 He had not been one of the late Stalin 's critics , but I liked the way he sang his large repertoire of Scottish folksongs and I heeded him when he denounced Butch and Sundance .
13 ‘ We became roommates and I taught him all he knows . ’
14 We have a lot of fun and a lot of laughs and I know he is serious about me .
15 As for Andropulos , several of my officers and I think he 's a leery customer and a suspicious one .
16 We go a hundred yards and I tell him to stop .
17 ‘ He has long arms and I think he 'll use them to hold me off and make it a long bout .
18 Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time .
19 He added : ‘ Tony and I are good friends and I wish him all the best .
20 But erm , one of my neighbours works for A C A S and I asked him er , his opinion of the G M B , and he said good negotiators , hard negotiators , but very good at getting better conditions for their members and I think he , and certainly I knew before , that the G M B is one of the most progressive trade unions in this country and we 're very pleased to have them in Portsmouth .
21 Albert Spanswick came from the old school of trade union leaders and I found him a more persuasive advocate for health service workers than Rodney Bickerstaffe .
22 ‘ Next day he packed his bags and I found he had taken a load of my clothes , ’ added Kim .
23 There was blood on his hands and I thought he 'd had an accident .
24 Just because he came here in his working clothes and I knew he drove a lorry …
25 Also Simon is one of my best mates and I knew he 'd buckle down with the right team if he was in with a chance of winning . ’
26 That 's three easy ones and I done he .
27 My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell .
28 The Secretary of State for Scotland will recall that , when my colleagues and I met him and the Secretary of State for the Environment during the consultation period on local government funding , we argued our case on local income tax and pursued the issue of costing .
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