Example sentences of "[vb past] ask me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
| 2 | My mind went back a couple of months to when Charlie 'd asked me if I 'd like to make a bit on the side . |
| 3 | By midnight , he 'd asked me to marry him . ’ |
| 4 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 5 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 'd asked me nearer the time … ’ |
| 7 | He 'd asked me to go and see him in the evening to continue the interview . |
| 8 | I suppose if you 'd asked me before all this happened , I 'd have said I 'd give in , but I was so angry . |
| 9 | We spent a long time on the sofa that evening , and I would have stayed the night if he 'd asked me but he did n't . |
| 10 | " Well , I 'd have told you earlier if you 'd asked me . " |
| 11 | I 'd have joined him in the Abacos if he 'd asked me , little holidays from time to time . |
| 12 | Well i is n't if you 'd asked me last August when we bought the I would have said probably Radio Brittany or Radio Rouane |
| 13 | I thought it would be nice ; he 'd asked me specially . |
| 14 | There is a biography of Jasper Carrot which I can hardly wait not to read , there is a biography of Cliff Richard written by a woman who hugged him once 20 years ago ( ‘ I would have married him if he 'd asked me ’ ) . |
| 15 | Dick cross dresses , confesses he hates women , admits that he once shook Lulu 's hand in 1962 , ‘ If she 'd asked me to marry her , ’ said Dick , smoothing down his silk stockings , ‘ I would have said yes . ’ |
| 16 | Somebody 'd asked me and everybody was wanted their er these er imitation fireplaces . |
| 17 | The White Swan in Ellesmere Port , she 'd asked me |
| 18 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 19 | When , not too long afterwards , an emissary came to ask me how much money I wanted not to look too closely into Thieme 's affairs , I knew what many an ‘ investigative ’ journalist knows : for some people , there are no rules , no codes they do not think they can break . |
| 20 | He called the interpreter , who gave no sign that he had ever seen me before , and began asking me questions . |
| 21 | He began to ask me what the realities were of his medical situation and his prognosis — what could be hoped for in the best of circumstances . |
| 22 | I remember the shock of realizing that this was my last ever second-year class , then my last ever third-year class , and then people started asking me about my leaving party . |
| 23 | At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes . |
| 24 | I had never heard of river engineers until one morning a very harassed engineer rang to ask me to persuade the lady in question not to tie herself to the ancient pollard which he intended to fell . |
| 25 | Their mother ( i.e. Surjeet 's mother-in-law ) kept asking me to wear it over my head . |
| 26 | Jim Rosenthal of ITV kept asking me to give my side of the story and in the end I did , appreciating the opportunity to put the record straight . |
| 27 | He kept asking me out . |
| 28 | My sister was curious to know all the details of my visit , and kept asking me question after question . |
| 29 | Bartenders , hoteliers and B-girls kept asking me if I was Tunney 's brother . |
| 30 | As we rode the four miles to Wuthering Heights , he kept asking me questions about his new home , and the father he had never seen . |