Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him about his temporary drinking problem . |
| 2 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 3 | I asked you for your one pound eighty five and you said no . |
| 4 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 5 | I met him on my last visit to Glasgow recently : a jolly , likeable man today . |
| 6 | ‘ I met him through my younger brother who played football with him . |
| 7 | I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ? |
| 8 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 9 | Well it , it , not yesterday , the day before , I got them under my right shoulder blade , |
| 10 | I got her through my old friend , Blandly , who , with everyone in Bristol , worked hard to find me a suitable ship when they heard the reason for our voyage — treasure , I mean . |
| 11 | I got it for my eighteenth you see . |
| 12 | " No , I got it by my own self . " |
| 13 | Red 2 experienced no return fire , on either of his attacks , and I experienced none on my second attack , during which I closed range to 100 yds and concentrated on engines of E/A with no visible effect . |
| 14 | I found it in my old snap album . |
| 15 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 16 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 17 | Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls . |
| 18 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 19 | So from there I I mentioned it to our provincial who 's the i the one who 's in charge of us all in this er area . |
| 20 | I think my mum is still in a state of shock after I told her about my Irish selection . ’ |
| 21 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 22 | I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 . |
| 23 | I told him of my past life in the village , and my expectations . |
| 24 | I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’ |
| 25 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 26 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 27 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 28 | During the coming weeks , as I told you in our last programme , we are going to talk with people from outside the university who have contacts with us . |
| 29 | Regretfully , I consigned them to my personal museum of surfing memorabilia along with my Coogee Beach swallow-tail radical intermediate . |
| 30 | But I used to do work for customer down the garage there he used to have two cars to hire and I drove one in my spare time . |