Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] he [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
2 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
3 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
4 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
7 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
8 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |
11 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
12 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
13 | Er I told him about the other one . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | I compared him to the other gentlemen present . |
16 | And er I gets him down and I gets him into the stable , and I gets all the clothes off him and he gets into a bag , a bran bag , more bags and lay down and covered himself , and I hung his clothes round the boiler fire . |
17 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
18 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
19 | However , I refer him to the recent report on our manufacturing performance produced by the CBI entitled ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ . |
20 | I refer him to the independent Centre for Economic Policy Research , where Professor Denis Snower recently published a document saying : ’ Implementing the social charter may be expected to hurt precisely those workers it seeks to help , in addition to raising unemployment and reducing investment ’ . |
21 | I remember him outside the front door , getting out of the taxi . |
22 | I tell him about the old garage under the arches . |
23 | I followed him to the cold lands of the north , and bought dogs and a sledge . |
24 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
25 | I followed him out the back door . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | I knew him through the Civil Service Orchestra , you see . |
28 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | ‘ I saw him outside the American University Hospital yesterday morning , ’ Laidlaw cut in quickly . |