Example sentences of "when i [verb] him for " in BNC.

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1 When I ask him for telephone numbers of the people who know him best , he gives me the numbers of Deneuve , Shrimpton and Helvin before Jack Nicholson , Brian Clarke and Julian Schnabel .
2 When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once .
3 When I asked him for his reaction , he sat hunched behind a table in his little palace , his head hanging down , his half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose .
4 But when I asked him for permission he just agreed .
5 When I press him for more names he suddenly gets the deer-caught-in-the-headlights look , and , deciding he 's already revealed too much , replies , ‘ Ah , just people . ’
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