Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I asked 'im what 'e done in the war an' 'e told me it was no concern o' mine . |
| 2 | We did not promise ; but before we went back I asked them what had happened to the prisoner who had looked so funny escaping on a mule . |
| 3 | I asked him what future he foresaw for our civilization . |
| 4 | I asked him what it might have been ; after all , if he was an expert on the local birds then he ought to know . |
| 5 | When I asked him what those eminent shrinks did with themselves in the evenings he explained that they gathered in the hotel bar . |
| 6 | Seeing the look of pain on my driver 's face , I asked him what had become of Eileen , ‘ The Girl from County Donegal ’ , possessor of one of the purest ballad voices I know , with a hint of Irish mischief . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As he pushed away from shore , the reeds of the swamp parting before us , I asked him what his name meant in Setswanan . |
| 9 | I asked him what he did , and what principles guided him . |
| 10 | I had n't caught too many tubes myself so I asked him what it was like in there . |
| 11 | When I caught up with Pottz later that evening , I asked him what had gone wrong . |
| 12 | Later in the evening I asked him what life in a prison camp was like . |
| 13 | I asked him what his name was and he said , ‘ Tommy Jones ’ or something , and I said , ‘ Who lives next door ? ’ and he gave me another name , and I said , ‘ Oh , no she does n't . |
| 14 | I asked him what was his most enduring memory of Miles . |
| 15 | ‘ When I asked him what sort of things he liked , he typed in the word aeroplane , spelt perfectly . ’ |
| 16 | Soon after Bogie joined us and I asked him what was going on . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | I asked him what bearing that had on the cleanliness of the cottage . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Daryl , who gave the jury a demonstration of the backward swing , said : ‘ I asked him what his handicap was and he did n't appear to understand . |
| 21 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 22 | When he had finished I asked him what it meant . |
| 23 | Not one to miss a plug , I asked him what he thought of our latest issue . |
| 24 | I asked him what he had done to land himself in jail . |
| 25 | ‘ I asked him what his impression was of the University and I remember him looking at me and saying : ‘ Very friendly , very prosperous and doing very well ’ . |
| 26 | I asked him what it felt like when he stood in the Richmond Building Foyer . |
| 27 | I asked him what I should do . |
| 28 | When I asked him what for he gave a sad sigh and then a sort of bitter grin and looked me in the eye and said , ‘ Sexual harassment . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I asked him what he had in mind . |
| 30 | . I asked him what he did with himself in Marseilles all day long ? |