Example sentences of "i [vb past] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 2 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 3 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 4 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 5 | A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan . |
| 6 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 7 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
| 8 | When I saw my friend Bob Hope in some comedy or other at the age of six I provided him with an imaginary wife , who was called ‘ Nothing ’ . |
| 9 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 10 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 11 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 12 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 13 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 14 | I compared him to the other gentlemen present . |
| 15 | I followed him to the cold lands of the north , and bought dogs and a sledge . |
| 16 | I followed him into a small room beside the kitchen . |
| 17 | I followed him into a small room . |
| 18 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 19 | I followed him out the back door . |
| 20 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 21 | Gareth took a step or two after them and I called him in an explosive croak , ‘ Gareth , ’ and he stopped and turned immediately and came back , bending down . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew him as a hard-working , modest , and honest politician , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
| 24 | I knew him through the Civil Service Orchestra , you see . |
| 25 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 26 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 27 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 28 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ I saw him outside the American University Hospital yesterday morning , ’ Laidlaw cut in quickly . |
| 30 | I heaved him at the other two and they went down , firing wild into the air . |