Example sentences of "i [vb past] him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 2 | I asked him about his shamanism . |
| 3 | I asked him about his communication system with the engineer . |
| 4 | I asked him about his temporary drinking problem . |
| 5 | ‘ Another time I asked him about his having turned down Parliament on a point of principle . |
| 6 | Later , as Wemmick and I left Jaggers ' house together , I asked him about his employer 's housekeeper . |
| 7 | ‘ I showed him my brooch — the one you gave me for my birthday — and I asked him about his birthday . |
| 8 | No wonder he clammed up whenever I asked him about his childhood . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | When I asked him about his nose he actually growled at me . |
| 11 | I asked him about his party 's environmental charter but he seemed to have no answer . ’ |
| 12 | I asked him through his interpreter whether he could now make the films he wanted again . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I waylaid him on his arrival . |
| 15 | I met him on his way back here to report … ’ |
| 16 | I met him at his son 's flat in north London — a somewhat incongruous setting for a man who 's spent so much of his time in some of the wildest places in the world . |
| 17 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 18 | So , of course , he got up , I went to close the door he was there so I tried him in his pushchair , I says well you 'll have to walk , I know it 's only five minutes away . |
| 19 | I found him in his trench enjoying a mug of tea and in deep conversation with a Commando friend of his . |
| 20 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 21 | Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls . |
| 22 | Two years later he bought my mother a new car and at just the same time I caught him in his office with his secretary . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I told him about his man Modena at 40–1 . |
| 24 | Then I told him about his man Modena at 40–1 . |
| 25 | ‘ I told him about his identity tonight , ’ he snapped . |
| 26 | I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’ |
| 27 | But I secured him by his stump and went on . |
| 28 | I joined him in his laughter . |
| 29 | I admired him for his decision then , I admired him for not thinking being world champion was worth the risk , and I admire him still for maintaining a moral stance . |
| 30 | Whilst Mrs Ledingham fumbled with the border , I confronted him with his folly . |