Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | I asked him after the event what he thought . |
| 4 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 5 | We wotchered each other as I led him across the road . |
| 6 | She said , ‘ I led him into the chapel of the Madonna , just like you told me . |
| 7 | I led him into the billiard room where I stoked the fire while he sat down in one of the leather chairs and began to remove his shoes . |
| 8 | I met him during the summer vac . |
| 9 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
| 10 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 11 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 13 | I met him in the hall — ’ she explained , and was going on to warn Rob to tone down his exuberance when she saw Luke coming towards them . |
| 14 | " I met him in the toilet at the bus station . " |
| 15 | ‘ Until I met him in the flesh . |
| 16 | Once when we were both contributing to The Year 's Work in English Studies ( he on Renaissance drama ) , I met him in the library and expressed anxiety about the deadline . |
| 17 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 18 | But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank . |
| 19 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 20 | Thereafter , if I passed him in the corridor or on the staircase , those eyes registered no recognition . |
| 21 | When I whipped him , when I whipped him into the side just down there . |
| 22 | I clapped him on the back . |
| 23 | I got him into the factory and from there we got the ambulance and … and I took him to the Royal Victoria Infirmary . ’ |
| 24 | joined us just as we were ready to go overseas , he had just come out of er Flight School and of course his heart was set on being a fighter pilot and here he became a co-pilot so he was a very disappointed man and he did not stand up well in combat so there were n't too many missions , about five and I bounced him off the crew and would n't fly with him any more and got then other co-pilots to fly with me from our Squadron . |
| 25 | Hell , I beat him to the handshake and it 's on camera . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 27 | I invited him into the house and there , in the bright light , I took a closer look at him . |
| 28 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |
| 29 | The man 's cheek is cut from where I caught him with the chain . |
| 30 | ‘ I phoned him from the training ground yesterday and had a row with him because it was embarrassing for Barnet . |