Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I asked him what they said when he gave the order and he went red .
2 I asked him what we British could do to help .
3 He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin .
4 I asked him what he did , and what principles guided him .
5 Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) .
6 I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’
7 As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing .
8 Not one to miss a plug , I asked him what he thought of our latest issue .
9 I asked him what he had done to land himself in jail .
10 I asked him what he had in mind .
11 . I asked him what he did with himself in Marseilles all day long ?
12 I asked him what he wanted and he hit me with a gin . ’
13 So I asked him what he was up to and he said he was going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it , and then he pushed th " trolley in , and I went in after , and the mother began her howling and shrieking , and Will said , " Well , I 'll walk off and leave you to it . "
14 I asked him what he wanted and he said , ‘ I 'll take a glass of rum . ’
15 Then I asked him what he really wanted me to do .
16 And when I asked him what he meant , he said irritably , ‘ Oh , do n't be more stupid than you need be .
17 ‘ I am not what you think I am , ’ and I asked him what he thought I believed him to be .
18 I asked him what he thought of Magritte the other day , and he thought I was talking about some girl in first year .
19 ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’
20 When I asked him what he meant , all he replied was , ‘ It is a grave matter ’ . ’
21 I asked him what he had told the Department of Trade and Industry , and he said that he had said nothing .
22 ‘ No , I saw the bruise when he came back to the shop on Tuesday evening and I asked him what he 'd done to himself .
23 I asked him what he was going to be .
24 Well I , I , I asked him what he wanted for Christmas
25 It seemed to me that this would be an interesting and upbeat note on which to finish our current serious on the theme of disasters , so I asked him what he meant by human betterment .
26 I asked him what it might have been ; after all , if he was an expert on the local birds then he ought to know .
27 I had n't caught too many tubes myself so I asked him what it was like in there .
28 When he had finished I asked him what it meant .
29 I asked him what it felt like when he stood in the Richmond Building Foyer .
30 I asked him what I should do .
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