Example sentences of "i asked he [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
2 | ‘ Because I asked him about it this morning , when we were both up here , sitting on that bank . |
3 | In Oxford , the voice of the gnomic Professor Sammy Finer , a declared political agnostic , rose a full octave when I asked him about it : ‘ It simply is n't true any longer that merit will out . |
4 | I asked him about his shamanism . |
5 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
6 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
7 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
8 | I asked him about Heath 's style as Prime Minister : |
9 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
10 | I asked him about his communication system with the engineer . |
11 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
12 | ‘ When I asked him about it he told me : ‘ Leave me alone — I 'm working . ’ |
13 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |
14 | I asked him about his temporary drinking problem . |
15 | ‘ Another time I asked him about his having turned down Parliament on a point of principle . |
16 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |
17 | Later , as Wemmick and I left Jaggers ' house together , I asked him about his employer 's housekeeper . |
18 | ‘ I showed him my brooch — the one you gave me for my birthday — and I asked him about his birthday . |
19 | When I asked him about sheets , he said , I buy them new , tell me when you want some more . |
20 | ‘ That afternoon I asked him about it . |
21 | 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 . ’ |
22 | No wonder he clammed up whenever I asked him about his childhood . |
23 | ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident . |
24 | And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter . |
25 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
26 | ‘ I asked him about his attitude to his cousin and he said he did n't have an attitude but that he was very upset . ’ |
27 | When I asked him about his nose he actually growled at me . |
28 | I asked him about his party 's environmental charter but he seemed to have no answer . ’ |
29 | I asked him about going to the Highlands and seeing the wonderful colours there and he just looked at me and said ‘ too amorphous ’ . |
30 | When I had occasion to talk to the Home Secretary about this , I asked him about this and he said oh , we want it to be local and I said you mean local not region and he said yes , local and I hope my noble friend who was there will remember that when he comes to decide whether this region things ever going to get a running . |