Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] he [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident . |
| 2 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 3 | Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’ |
| 4 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 5 | When I told him about the Whitehorse Cinema manager offering him $500. to fly up to open the new building , he laughed loud and long . |
| 6 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 7 | I took him to the Spar shop ! |
| 8 | I took him to the St Petersburg library , let him show me pictures of the uniforms . |
| 9 | I took him to the Savoy Hotel . |
| 10 | ‘ Since I put him in the Melbourne Cup , which is a serious entry , we 've had enquiries from America , so he could yet change stables . ’ |
| 11 | In 1894 he was awarded a London county council scholarship with distinctions , which took him to the Kenmont Gardens Science School ( 1894–7 ) and in 1896 he was awarded an evening exhibition to the Regent Street Polytechnic . |
| 12 | Gavin can remember little about the savage attack which put him into the John Radcliffe Hospital . |
| 13 | More than £2m was invested in Teddy Sheringham from Nottingham Forest , who responded with 28 goals , which forced him into the England squad . |
| 14 | That the son turned out to be all but six and a half feet tall at the age of thirteen and went through school and university wielding a subversive wit which catapulted him into the West End and the beginnings of real fame in his early twenties , seems almost in bad taste , very embarrassing indeed , certainly uncalled for and probably best left undiscovered . |
| 15 | His brother , who succeeded him as the Emperor Leopold II , was able to restore peace in the disturbed areas only by a skilful mixture of force and concessions . |
| 16 | You met him at the Kremlin . |
| 17 | Stoughton was even a friend of Matthew Arnold , who proposed him for the Athenaeum . |
| 18 | However , if Europeans were exasperated with Carter , many had little liking either for the man who beat him in the November presidential elections . |
| 19 | But then she remembered Matthew 's smiling face when she told him about the Avery prize . |
| 20 | When they reached Perugia she dropped him opposite the Questura . |
| 21 | At the age of nineteen he was apprenticed to Isambard K. Brunel [ q.v. ] who employed him on the Thames tunnel and on some sections of the Great Western Railway . |
| 22 | I was conscious , too , of his fine , tanned hand holding the pencil , and of the occasional play of warm breath from his mouth , wholesome as home-baked bread , though he was a heavy smoker — much heavier than I. ft was I who introduced him to the Bisontes brand , a Spanish version of Lucky Strike , with a similar ‘ toasted ’ flavour . |
| 23 | Alexander , his third son , was educated at Harrow and Cambridge where he met , as well as Manners , Benjamin Webb who introduced him to the Cambridge Camden Society . |
| 24 | Jimmy last met the Queen in 1979 when she presented him with the OBE. |
| 25 | You had him at the Lord Howe , that 's the last I know . |
| 26 | His claim that we described him as the IRA 's Chief of Staff is untrue . |
| 27 | We saw him at the Rugby World Cup Final , consoling Carling . |
| 28 | Clearly they heard him in the Cornerways flats and in Sea House and in the Dasses ' house and in the lounges of the Queen Victoria Hotel . |
| 29 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 30 | A vet who checked family records discovered he was 17 to 18 years old when he examined him at the Halewood RSPCA shelter yesterday evening . |