Example sentences of "i [vb past] him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin .
2 ‘ Because I asked him about it this morning , when we were both up here , sitting on that bank .
3 In Oxford , the voice of the gnomic Professor Sammy Finer , a declared political agnostic , rose a full octave when I asked him about it : ‘ It simply is n't true any longer that merit will out .
4 I asked him about his shamanism .
5 I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings .
6 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 .
7 When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been .
8 I asked him about Heath 's style as Prime Minister :
9 I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned .
10 I asked him about his communication system with the engineer .
11 ‘ 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 .
12 ‘ When I asked him about it he told me : ‘ Leave me alone — I 'm working . ’
13 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 .
14 I asked him about his temporary drinking problem .
15 ‘ Another time I asked him about his having turned down Parliament on a point of principle .
16 When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises .
17 Later , as Wemmick and I left Jaggers ' house together , I asked him about his employer 's housekeeper .
18 ‘ I showed him my brooch — the one you gave me for my birthday — and I asked him about his birthday .
19 When I asked him about sheets , he said , I buy them new , tell me when you want some more .
20 ‘ That afternoon I asked him about it .
21 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 . ’
22 No wonder he clammed up whenever I asked him about his childhood .
23 I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident .
24 And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter .
25 But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative .
26 I asked him about his attitude to his cousin and he said he did n't have an attitude but that he was very upset . ’
27 When I asked him about his nose he actually growled at me .
28 I asked him about his party 's environmental charter but he seemed to have no answer . ’
29 I asked him about going to the Highlands and seeing the wonderful colours there and he just looked at me and said ‘ too amorphous ’ .
30 When I had occasion to talk to the Home Secretary about this , I asked him about this and he said oh , we want it to be local and I said you mean local not region and he said yes , local and I hope my noble friend who was there will remember that when he comes to decide whether this region things ever going to get a running .
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