Example sentences of "i [vb past] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 2 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 3 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
| 4 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 5 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 6 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |
| 7 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident . |
| 9 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 10 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 11 | I asked him for an instance of the difference between bookselling in Knightsbridge , London , and Union Street , Glasgow . |
| 12 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 13 | I asked him after the event what he thought . |
| 14 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 15 | We wotchered each other as I led him across the road . |
| 16 | I led him into the billiard room where I stoked the fire while he sat down in one of the leather chairs and began to remove his shoes . |
| 17 | She said , ‘ I led him into the chapel of the Madonna , just like you told me . |
| 18 | I met him during the summer vac . |
| 19 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
| 20 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 21 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 24 | I met him at a Conference , in Paris . ’ |
| 25 | I met him at a party . |
| 26 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 27 | I met him at a dance , a nice soldier who was playing double bass in the band . |
| 28 | ‘ When he was vice-president , I met him at a stage dinner when the Reagans were in the White House and we had a dance and we talked about playing tennis . |
| 29 | Apparently I met him at a conference on the economics of multiculturalism . |
| 30 | ‘ I met him at a tennis club , and he was a very , very attractive man indeed . |