Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] he [prep] the [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 met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 4 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 5 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 6 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |
| 9 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 10 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 11 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I compared him to the other gentlemen present . |
| 14 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 15 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 16 | I followed him to the cold lands of the north , and bought dogs and a sledge . |
| 17 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 18 | I followed him out the back door . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I knew him through the Civil Service Orchestra , you see . |
| 21 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 22 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw him outside the American University Hospital yesterday morning , ’ Laidlaw cut in quickly . |
| 24 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 25 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 26 | She says ; The last time I saw him with the two children was on Saturday . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 28 | I heaved him at the other two and they went down , firing wild into the air . |
| 29 | I taunted him with the same lie Ursula used . |
| 30 | I took him to the first Giants game when he was three . |