Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I asked him about his temporary drinking problem . |
| 32 | ‘ Another time I asked him about his having turned down Parliament on a point of principle . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Later , as Wemmick and I left Jaggers ' house together , I asked him about his employer 's housekeeper . |
| 35 | ‘ I showed him my brooch — the one you gave me for my birthday — and I asked him about his birthday . |
| 36 | When I asked him about sheets , he said , I buy them new , tell me when you want some more . |
| 37 | ‘ That afternoon I asked him about it . |
| 38 | 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 . ’ |
| 39 | No wonder he clammed up whenever I asked him about his childhood . |
| 40 | ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident . |
| 41 | And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter . |
| 42 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 43 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 44 | When I asked him about his nose he actually growled at me . |
| 45 | I asked him about his party 's environmental charter but he seemed to have no answer . ’ |
| 46 | I asked him about going to the Highlands and seeing the wonderful colours there and he just looked at me and said ‘ too amorphous ’ . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Erm oh I asked him about that when I went and he said it were nothing to worry about , it 's just |
| 49 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
| 50 | And this was n't an Anglican church , erm it was a Baptist church , and when I was seven I understood that Jesus had died for me and then I asked him into my heart and when I was twelve I was baptized , which is the equivalent really of being confirmed . |
| 51 | I asked him through his interpreter whether he could now make the films he wanted again . |
| 52 | I asked him for one yesterday and he said he never had one . |
| 53 | When I asked him for his reaction , he sat hunched behind a table in his little palace , his head hanging down , his half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose . |
| 54 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 55 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 56 | I asked him for something to ease the pain , but he reminded me that he could n't because I had a head wound . |
| 57 | I asked him for more but he said that with the family allowance we had the same . |
| 58 | I asked him for an instance of the difference between bookselling in Knightsbridge , London , and Union Street , Glasgow . |
| 59 | But when I asked him for permission he just agreed . |
| 60 | He wanted to rush round straight away but I asked him to be patient . |