Example sentences of "and i [verb] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In fact , Ursula and I accepted his invitation to go over to Macau with him and Cavell Fielding on Tuesday evening for dinner and a spot of gambling in one of the casinos , and a very enjoyable few hours they were too . ’ |
| 2 | And I got his kid . ’ |
| 3 | This time he seemed ill at ease and jumpy and I noticed his face was slick with perspiration when he spun to greet me . |
| 4 | At the end of my reading , the lecturer asked the newcomer his name , and I heard his voice for the first time — a soft , warm American accent , with the rich , furry tone the English find so attractive . |
| 5 | Then he raised a hand and I heard his whisper . |
| 6 | It 's an alien situation and I question his ability to handle it . |
| 7 | And I know his name not it 's sommat like erm who can I say . |
| 8 | ‘ Never , though he did say his local picture house was the Pavilion and I know his mother took her loaves to be baked at a place called Jimmy McFadden 's bakery , but they 're not in the phone book , either of them . |
| 9 | Sir , I have been with my master for twenty years and I know his appearance as well as I know my own . |
| 10 | Far as I remember he called me a nasty name and I slapped his wrist . ’ |
| 11 | James watched me prodding away at the knitting for a while , and I sensed his helplessness . |
| 12 | He lacks , in my view , the lyrical flow and intensity of Alfred Tennyson , and I doubt his seriousness . |
| 13 | Dr de Pomiane bypassed it , and I adopted his method , particularly his recipe for cooking Belgian endives in butter and entirely without a prior water baptism . |
| 14 | He drank , and I took his glass . |
| 15 | ‘ A Gnat honours his promise , ’ I told him , and I took his kite down off the racks I was amazed how light it was It was beautiful It was big , silicon black , with scarlet lines , and when I took it outside , the sun flashed rainbows off the shoulder hooks . |
| 16 | As we could go no faster than the pace of the slowest man , Marius and I took his rucksack and FA-MAS to lighten his load . |
| 17 | ‘ … and I made his toe . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Ah , but I love getting back to the North , ’ says Sergei , and I follow his gaze to a landscape like a sheet of cartridge paper . |
| 19 | You 're saying that Tom and old Maggie Sullivan and I cut his throat for him ? ’ |
| 20 | When Mrs Funnell later relayed this conversation to her great-granddaughter , she had ended , ‘ And I understood his reason perfectly . |
| 21 | And I cherish his reply . |
| 22 | Oliver just buried his head in my lap and I said his mummy was poorly . |
| 23 | ‘ He only tries when there 's an England selector watching and I said his OBE stood for ‘ Overweight Bag of Excrement ’ . ’ |
| 24 | And I make his desk as a desk . |
| 25 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 26 | And I attacked his view ( that ‘ to have a sensation of heat is to feel that a portion of our body is hot ‘ ) by saying that to talk of feeling the heat of one 's hand without touching it would be like talking of feeling the roughness of the back of one 's hand without touching it . |
| 27 | He turned to me slowly , and I saw his face , expressionless in its blackness , with his yellow eyes fixed on me coldly , like an animal 's . |
| 28 | And … and I saw his face ! ’ |
| 29 | Then he took off his mask , and I saw his face . ’ |
| 30 | I went close , I kneeled , and I saw his face then . |