Example sentences of "i [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings .
2 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 .
3 When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been .
4 I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned .
5 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 .
6 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 . ’
7 I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident .
8 But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative .
9 I asked him after the event what he thought .
10 I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin .
11 We wotchered each other as I led him across the road .
12 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 .
13 She said , ‘ I led him into the chapel of the Madonna , just like you told me .
14 ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully .
15 Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle .
16 I met him during the summer vac .
17 He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago .
18 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 . ’
19 Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’
20 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 .
21 I met him at the Labour Club .
22 ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house .
23 Once when we were both contributing to The Year 's Work in English Studies ( he on Renaissance drama ) , I met him in the library and expressed anxiety about the deadline .
24 Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’
25 These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day .
26 ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled .
27 " I met him in the toilet at the bus station . "
28 ‘ Until I met him in the flesh .
29 I would n't have known him if I met him in the street .
30 I met him in the hall — ’ she explained , and was going on to warn Rob to tone down his exuberance when she saw Luke coming towards them .
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