Example sentences of "i [vb past] he [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 met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 .
4 I met him on my last visit to Glasgow recently : a jolly , likeable man today .
5 I met him through my younger brother who played football with him .
6 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 ?
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 I told him of my past life in the village , and my expectations .
13 I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’
14 I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one .
15 Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas .
16 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 .
17 I thanked him for his cheering thought and walked over to interrupt Barry who was involved with a small group of well-heeled tourists at the far end of the bar .
18 I loved him for his special attention towards me ; he made me feel important — if only to him .
19 I loved him in my own way .
20 I saw Him as my only friend .
21 I complimented him on his artistic prowess as a surgeon ; he smiled .
22 Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition .
23 I put him in his early fifties , ’ said the Archdeacon judiciously .
24 So I put him in my tropical set up along with my Gouramis , Mollies , Guppies and Plecs .
25 I left him with our next-door neighbour — she 's very good with him . ’
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