Example sentences of "i [verb] he [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I met him at a Conference , in Paris . ’ |
| 7 | I met him at a party . |
| 8 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 9 | I met him at a dance , a nice soldier who was playing double bass in the band . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Apparently I met him at a conference on the economics of multiculturalism . |
| 12 | ‘ I met him at a tennis club , and he was a very , very attractive man indeed . |
| 13 | A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan . |
| 14 | Just cos I beat him in a race . |
| 15 | I found him with a kitten . |
| 16 | I found him near a pile of stacked ropes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When I detained him by a greeting , he looked up a little puzzled , saying that he thought that we lived in Cornwall Gardens . |
| 19 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 20 | I honour him as a ‘ bridge ’ between two ancient cultures — East and West — at a time when such positive influences are much needed . |
| 21 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
| 22 | I I regarded him as a a professional , highly trained officer er confidence in his judgement . |
| 23 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 24 | ‘ Neither , ’ I told him with a grin . |
| 25 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 26 | I booked him into a clinic , the finest . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He is now 7″ long , and I transferred him to a 4ft tank . |
| 29 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm disappointed by the stick he gets because I know him as a person . |