Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
4 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . ’ |
7 | ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident . |
8 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
9 | I asked him after the event what he thought . |
10 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
11 | We wotchered each other as I led him across the road . |
12 | I led him into the billiard room where I stoked the fire while he sat down in one of the leather chairs and began to remove his shoes . |
13 | She said , ‘ I led him into the chapel of the Madonna , just like you told me . |
14 | I met him during the summer vac . |
15 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
16 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
17 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
18 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
19 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
20 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
21 | Once when we were both contributing to The Year 's Work in English Studies ( he on Renaissance drama ) , I met him in the library and expressed anxiety about the deadline . |
22 | Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’ |
23 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
24 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
25 | " I met him in the toilet at the bus station . " |
26 | ‘ Until I met him in the flesh . |
27 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
28 | I met him in the hall — ’ she explained , and was going on to warn Rob to tone down his exuberance when she saw Luke coming towards them . |
29 | But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank . |
30 | Aye , right , I met him in the , in the , what 's the name of that sweet shop , Martin and somebody |