Example sentences of "i [verb] he [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 3 | ‘ I met him at a tennis club , and he was a very , very attractive man indeed . |
| 4 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 5 | I met him at a dance , a nice soldier who was playing double bass in the band . |
| 6 | I met him at a Conference , in Paris . ’ |
| 7 | Apparently I met him at a conference on the economics of multiculturalism . |
| 8 | ‘ When he was vice-president , I met him at a stage dinner when the Reagans were in the White House and we had a dance and we talked about playing tennis . |
| 9 | I met him at a party . |
| 10 | Just cos I beat him in a race . |
| 11 | I found him with a kitten . |
| 12 | I found him near a pile of stacked ropes . |
| 13 | When I detained him by a greeting , he looked up a little puzzled , saying that he thought that we lived in Cornwall Gardens . |
| 14 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 15 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 16 | ‘ Neither , ’ I told him with a grin . |
| 17 | I booked him into a clinic , the finest . |
| 18 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm disappointed by the stick he gets because I know him as a person . |
| 20 | I cursed him for a fool . |
| 21 | ’ I like him as a fellow . |
| 22 | For a long time , I adored him at a distance and could n't believe my luck when he started showing an interest in me . ’ |
| 23 | I refer him to a pamphlet that was published in the mid-1980s by an obscure group of Back-Bench MPs called the No Turning Back group . |
| 24 | I ordered him from a kennel in Norfolk , arranging a price and delivery by train . |
| 25 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 26 | I followed him through a washroom and into a barrack room with a tiled floor . |
| 27 | ‘ I loved him as a son does a father . ’ |
| 28 | I feed him on a diet of mixed fish , with the odd goldfish ( the diet suggested by the fishkeeper ) . |
| 29 | The following sentences taken from van Ek ( 1966 : 104-5 ) illustrate this use : ( 97 ) I knew him as a man to be very much like myself . |
| 30 | I knew him over a period of about two years before he died . |