Example sentences of "i [verb] he [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative .
2 I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned .
3 ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully .
4 And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney .
5 I met him at the Labour Club .
6 A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan .
7 ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled .
8 If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road .
9 When I saw my friend Bob Hope in some comedy or other at the age of six I provided him with an imaginary wife , who was called ‘ Nothing ’ .
10 He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits .
11 Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness .
12 Er I told him about the other one .
13 I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down .
14 But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments .
15 I compared him to the other gentlemen present .
16 And er I gets him down and I gets him into the stable , and I gets all the clothes off him and he gets into a bag , a bran bag , more bags and lay down and covered himself , and I hung his clothes round the boiler fire .
17 However , I refer him to the recent report on our manufacturing performance produced by the CBI entitled ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ .
18 I refer him to the independent Centre for Economic Policy Research , where Professor Denis Snower recently published a document saying : ’ Implementing the social charter may be expected to hurt precisely those workers it seeks to help , in addition to raising unemployment and reducing investment ’ .
19 I remember him outside the front door , getting out of the taxi .
20 I remember him from a long time ago .
21 I tell him about the old garage under the arches .
22 I followed him to the cold lands of the north , and bought dogs and a sledge .
23 I followed him into a small room beside the kitchen .
24 I followed him into a small room .
25 As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself .
26 I followed him out the back door .
27 Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated .
28 Gareth took a step or two after them and I called him in an explosive croak , ‘ Gareth , ’ and he stopped and turned immediately and came back , bending down .
29 I knew him as a hard-working , modest , and honest politician , ’ he said .
30 I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves
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