Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [adv] he [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 But when I asked him where he had been all he said was , ‘ Go back to sleep . ’
2 He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ?
3 I asked him why he 'd lost his own teeth and he said the cause had been pyorrhea .
4 I asked him why he had decided to marry me .
5 Several months ago at a party I asked him why he had n't written a book about his years in the Himalaya .
6 I asked him why he had to explore it on me .
7 I asked him why he had n't got on with the other passengers .
8 When I asked him why he said it would spoil the looks of his bicycle to have them fitted now .
9 When I asked him why he wanted me to do that , he said it was because he was in love with you . ’
10 ‘ Mummy , I 'm sorry , but I asked him why he hated me so much … anyway , I do n't mind — I 'm happy he 's not my father ! ’
11 I asked him why he hit a 3-wood off the tee and he said he had to ; when he hits a driver he has absolutely no idea where the ball will go ! "
12 I was a fool ; I ought to have let it go at that , but I asked him why he did n't approve — and had a regular tirade !
13 I asked him why he did once and he said it was a more beautiful name .
14 I asked him why he bothered to help .
15 Eventually I asked him how he had become a Christian and why he had believed , and then asked him how he would answer some of the questions that his visit to a French university was bound to raise .
16 I asked him how he had coped emotionally with his captivity .
17 I asked him how he had been chosen for this honour and he told me ‘ I was pushed ’ ’ .
18 As one student patiently explained to me when I asked him how he knew what results he was looking for :
19 I asked him how he felt , ‘ Marvellous ! ’ he replied . ’
20 I asked him how he 'd done it but he would n't tell me .
21 I asked him how he read the lessons of the Franks Report :
22 I asked him how he coped with the summer traffic on the twisting single track roads .
23 … as I have often noted in this diary , Harold [ Wilson ] is extraordinarily sensitive on the issue of Party pledges , and when I approached him privately he said , ‘ This is a party pledge which has to be fulfilled ’ .
24 I told him how he had put up a man who was interdit de séjour … .
25 I 've had to go back up in to him , yeah , but I do n't know what happened last night , I do n't know whether he was not quite tired enough , erm , he must of got up as soon as I put him down and started sort of moaning then I went into the girls and I sorted them out he started screaming he did , so I had to go to him in and lay him down and making him lay down
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