Example sentences of "i [verb] him [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I send it to the individual 's home and I include a personal note from me thanking him for his achievement .
2 Would you like me to find him for you ?
3 We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin .
4 I asked him about his shamanism .
5 I asked him about his communication system with the engineer .
6 I asked him about his temporary drinking problem .
7 ‘ Another time I asked him about his having turned down Parliament on a point of principle .
8 Later , as Wemmick and I left Jaggers ' house together , I asked him about his employer 's housekeeper .
9 ‘ I showed him my brooch — the one you gave me for my birthday — and I asked him about his birthday .
10 No wonder he clammed up whenever I asked him about his childhood .
11 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 . ’
12 When I asked him about his nose he actually growled at me .
13 I asked him about his party 's environmental charter but he seemed to have no answer . ’
14 ‘ Because I asked him about it this morning , when we were both up here , sitting on that bank .
15 In Oxford , the voice of the gnomic Professor Sammy Finer , a declared political agnostic , rose a full octave when I asked him about it : ‘ It simply is n't true any longer that merit will out .
16 ‘ When I asked him about it he told me : ‘ Leave me alone — I 'm working . ’
17 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 .
18 ‘ That afternoon I asked him about it .
19 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 .
20 I asked him through his interpreter whether he could now make the films he wanted again .
21 I asked him for something to ease the pain , but he reminded me that he could n't because I had a head wound .
22 I asked him for one yesterday and he said he never had one .
23 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 .
24 I asked him to I told him to .
25 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 .
26 I waylaid him on his arrival .
27 The process in this case did not reach its logical conclusion because Mr. Thorpe — I commend him on his ingenuity , a quality with which the nation knows he is amply endowed — found a way to secure the necessary care .
28 I met him on my last visit to Glasgow recently : a jolly , likeable man today .
29 I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 .
30 I met him on his way back here to report … ’
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