Example sentences of "approach [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when this came up it was obviously advantageous to have some new tracks for the anthology and so we approached him and asked if he would be interested . |
| 2 | When on one occasion a young Indian student approached him and asked if he was T. S. Eliot , he looked up at her in alarm , agreed that he was , and got off the bus . |
| 3 | At the morning coffee-break , one of his colleagues approached him and said that he practised acupuncture , and that he would relieve his shoulder tension for him if he wished . |
| 4 | Candy , who had a long history of violence , reported that , while he was in Reading on 22 June , an Italian named Mike , whom he knew slightly , approached him and suggested that they rob a shopkeeper in the town . |
| 5 | He approached her and asked if he could help . |
| 6 | You 've got , you 've got like water rate , twelve hundred , er , rates , twelve but er , what we could try to do is approach them and see if we can lump it in with this year and that , obviously have to pay higher |
| 7 | Erm and the approach them and try and find out |
| 8 | She considered approaching him and asking if it might be possible for them to spend more time together , but the difference of nine years in their age put her in awe of him still , and she decided it was not her place to make such suggestions . |